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Injuries in adolescent female players in European football: a prospective study over one outdoor soccer season
Author(s) -
Söderman K.,
Adolphson J.,
Lorentzon R.,
Alfredson H.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of medicine and science in sports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.575
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1600-0838
pISSN - 0905-7188
DOI - 10.1034/j.1600-0838.2001.110508.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ankle , injury prevention , prospective cohort study , physical therapy , incidence (geometry) , poison control , occupational safety and health , football , ankle sprain , sports medicine , surgery , emergency medicine , physics , pathology , political science , law , optics
In this prospective study, injuries in 153 adolescent female soccer players were recorded during one outdoor season (April–October). The overall injury incidence rate was 6.8 per 1000 h soccer (games and practice) and the incidence rate of traumatic injury 9.1 and 1.5 per 1000 player‐hours in games and practice, respectively. Sixty‐three players (41%) sustained 79 injuries. Sixty‐six percent of the injuries were traumatic and 34% were overuse injuries. Most of the traumatic injuries occurred during games. Eighty‐nine percent of the injuries were located in the lower extremities and 42% occurred in the knee or ankle. The most frequent type of injury was ankle sprain (22.8%). Forty‐one percent of the traumatic injuries and 56% of the ankle sprains were re‐injuries. Most of the injuries were of moderate severity (52%), while 34% were minor and 14% were major. Most of the major injuries were traumatic such as knee ligament injuries and ankle sprains.