Injury characteristics, mechanisms, and game circumstances in junior community-level Australian football
Objective: Describe the injury characteristics, game circumstances, and immediate action and management of injuries sustained by boys and girls participating in junior community Australian football. Design: Cohort Study. Methods: All community junior Australian football players from one Victorian-ba...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2025-06-01
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| Series: | JSAMS Plus |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772696725000055 |
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| Summary: | Objective: Describe the injury characteristics, game circumstances, and immediate action and management of injuries sustained by boys and girls participating in junior community Australian football. Design: Cohort Study. Methods: All community junior Australian football players from one Victorian-based league were eligible to participate if they were injured during a game and presented to the gameday first aid medics. Injured players were subsequently followed up with a phone call to undertake an injury surveillance survey. The injury surveillance survey gathered information relating to the injury characteristics, game circumstances and management undertaken. Additionally, all players who sustained a head impact were asked about the presence or absence of concussion-related symptoms. Results: 439 players sustained an injury in the 2022 season, with 354 (80.6 %) participating in the survey. The head was the most frequently reported injured body region (n = 194, 54.8 %), with approximately half (n = 101) being a diagnosed or suspected sports-related concussion. The next three most frequently reported body regions were the ankle (n = 29, 8.2 %), knee (n = 24, 6.8 %), and shoulder (n = 20, 5.6 %). Almost all injuries were acute onset (n = 340, 96.0 %) and resulted from a contact-based mechanism (94.9 %, n = 222 direct contact, n = 114 indirect contact). Tackling was the most frequently reported game circumstance resulting in an injury (n = 160, 45.2 %). Conclusion: The head was the most frequently reported injured body region, with approximately one in every two reported head impacts resulting in a diagnosed/suspected sports-related concussion. Injury prevention strategies that promote safety when tackling and being tackled may reduce the frequency of injury, warranting further investigation. |
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| ISSN: | 2772-6967 |