Sports Specific Injury Pattern of Sportspersons

Objective: Previous researches on sports injuries primarily focused on specific games or sports or on specific types of injuries. None of them had tried to explore the injury patterns of games and sports altogether. The current study tried to explore the injury patterns of sportspersons over 16 different types of games and sports. Materials and methods: Total of 1008 injury cases (649 male and 369 female, age 21.07±2.78 and 20.81± 3.01 years) between the academic sessions 2008 to 2017 were analysed. Injury data were extracted from the institute injury record book. Apart from age and gender, 'Body site of injury', 'Types of injury' and 'Recurring of injury' were selected as variables for the study. Descriptive statistics, bar and pie diagram were generated using crosstabs function of IBM SPSS. Results: An average 101.80±12.59 injury was reported per year. Footballers were found to be the highest injured sportsperson (19.5%). Injury percentage of male players (63.75%) was higher compared to female (36.25%) counterparts. Lower limb area (45.28%) was found to be the highest affected body site of injury followed by upper limb area (29.47%). Acute injury constituted 50.39% of overall injuries. Most injuries were non-recurring in nature (63.65%). Further different combinations of analysis revealed more insight of injury patterns of sportspersons.