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. 2022 Mar 9;14(1):35.
doi: 10.1186/s13102-022-00431-3.

Sports injuries patterns in children and adolescents according to their sports participation level, age and maturation

Lara Costa E Silva  1   2 , Júlia Teles  3   4 , Isabel Fragoso  5   3
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Sports injuries patterns in children and adolescents according to their sports participation level, age and maturation

Lara Costa E Silva et al. BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil. .

Abstract

Background: Growth can make young athletes more vulnerable to sports injuries. Increased knowledge about injury profile and its predictors is an important part of an overall risk management strategy but few studies have produced information.

Methods: Information about injury profile and sports participation (SP) level was obtained by LESADO and RAPIL II questionnaires. They were distributed to 651 participants aged between 10 and 18 years attending four schools. Maturity measures were evaluated through maturity offset (MO) and Tanner-Whitehouse III method. Bivariate analysis was used to identify the set of candidate predictors for multinomial logistic regression analysis that was used to determine significant predictors of injury type and body area injury location.

Results: Regarding injury type predictors recreative boys had more chances of having a sprain or a fracture than a strain. Also, recreative and scholar girls had more chances of having a sprain than a strain. As MO decreased, the chances of girls having a strain or a fracture when compared to sprains were higher. For body area location boys with 10-11 years were more likely to have upper limbs injuries than boys of other ages. This was also confirmed by MO. Spine and trunk injuries were more likely to occur in federate and no sports participation girls.

Conclusions: Injury type and body area injury location differed significantly by SP level, age group and MO.

Keywords: Bone age; Children and adolescents; Peak height velocity; Sports injuries; Sports participation level.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no competing interests to declare.

Figures

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Boxplots of maturity offset for girls by type of injury
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Boxplots of maturity offset for boys by body area injury location
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Girls percentage of injuries by body area injury location for each SP level
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