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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| author | Indianna L. Franke Andrea B. Mosler Brooke E. Patterson Kay M. Crossley Patrick Clifton Steven McPhail Mark J. Scholes Matthew G. King |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-9bd9b55df18d4c088c4eee4de992e6562025-02-06T05:13:07ZengElsevierJSAMS Plus2772-69672025-06-015100091Injury characteristics, mechanisms, and game circumstances in junior community-level Australian footballIndianna L. Franke0Andrea B. Mosler1Brooke E. Patterson2Kay M. Crossley3Patrick Clifton4Steven McPhail5Mark J. Scholes6Matthew G. King7La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Australia; Australian IOC Research Centre, La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, AustraliaLa Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Australia; Australian IOC Research Centre, La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, AustraliaLa Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Australia; Australian IOC Research Centre, La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, AustraliaLa Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Australia; Australian IOC Research Centre, La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, AustraliaAdelaide Football Club, Adelaide, AustraliaFaculty of Health, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaLa Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Australia; Australian IOC Research Centre, La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, Australia; Discipline of Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Bundoora, AustraliaDiscipline of Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia; Corresponding author. Discipline of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772696725000055Australian footballSports-related concussionRehabilitationPediatrics |
| spellingShingle | Indianna L. Franke Andrea B. Mosler Brooke E. Patterson Kay M. Crossley Patrick Clifton Steven McPhail Mark J. Scholes Matthew G. King Injury characteristics, mechanisms, and game circumstances in junior community-level Australian football JSAMS Plus Australian football Sports-related concussion Rehabilitation Pediatrics |
| title | Injury characteristics, mechanisms, and game circumstances in junior community-level Australian football |
| title_full | Injury characteristics, mechanisms, and game circumstances in junior community-level Australian football |
| title_fullStr | Injury characteristics, mechanisms, and game circumstances in junior community-level Australian football |
| title_full_unstemmed | Injury characteristics, mechanisms, and game circumstances in junior community-level Australian football |
| title_short | Injury characteristics, mechanisms, and game circumstances in junior community-level Australian football |
| title_sort | injury characteristics mechanisms and game circumstances in junior community level australian football |
| topic | Australian football Sports-related concussion Rehabilitation Pediatrics |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772696725000055 |
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