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. 2018 Dec 27;4(1):e000468.
doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2018-000468. eCollection 2018.

Epidemiology of sports injuries in basketball: integrative systematic review

Carlos Vicente Andreoli  1 , Bárbara Camargo Chiaramonti  1 , Elisabeth Buriel  1 , Alberto de Castro Pochini  1 , Benno Ejnisman  1 , Moises Cohen  2
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Epidemiology of sports injuries in basketball: integrative systematic review

Carlos Vicente Andreoli et al. BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med. .

Abstract

Introduction: Basketball is a contact sport with complex movements that include jumps, turns and changes in direction, which cause frequent musculoskeletal injuries in all regions of the body.

Objective: This is an integrative systematic review of the epidemiology of musculoskeletal injuries in basketball.

Methods: This is an integrative review based on the following sources of information: PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, LILACS, BBO-Biblioteca Brasileira de Odontologia, IBECS-Índice Bibliográfico Espanhol em Ciências da Saúde, nursing journals, dental journals and core clinical journals in the last 10 years with studies addressing the general epidemiology of sports injuries in basketball.

Results: In total, 268 articles were selected, of which 11 were eligible for the integrative review. A total of 12 960 injuries were observed, most of which occurred in the lower limbs (63.7%), with 2832 (21.9%) ankle injuries and 2305 (17.8%) knee injuries. Injuries in the upper limbs represented 12%-14% of the total injuries. Children and adolescents received head injuries more often compared with the other age and skill categories. In the adult category, there was an increased prevalence of injuries in the trunk and spine. In the upper limbs, hands, fingers and wrists were affected more frequently than the shoulders, arms and forearms. In the masters' category, there was an increase in the incidence of thigh injuries.

Conclusion: The lower limbs were the most affected, with the ankle and knee joints having the highest prevalence of injuries regardless of gender and category. Further randomised studies, increased surveillance and epidemiological data collection are necessary to improve knowledge on sports injuries in basketball and to validate the effectiveness of preventive interventions.

Keywords: athletic injuries; basketball; epidemiology; sprains and strains.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Selection of the studies surveyed in the electronic databases and grey literature. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses algorithm. BBO, Biblioteca Brasileira de Odontologia (Brazilian Library of Dentistry); IBECS, Índice Bibliográfico Espanhol em Ciências da Saúde (Spanish Bibliographic Index in Health Sciences).
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Proportions of knee and ankle and foot injuries estimated by fixed-effects and random-effects models and the CIs and weight of each study in this estimation knee.
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