A 6-year surveillance study of “stingers” in NCAA American Football
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Eine sechsjährige Surveillance-Studie zu „Brennern“ im American Football an amerikanischen Colleges |
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Autor: | Green, James; Zuckerman, Scott L.; Dalton, Sara L.; Djoko, Aristarque; Folger, Dustin; Kerr, Zachary Y. |
Erschienen in: | Research in sports medicine |
Veröffentlicht: | 25 (2017), 1, S. 26-36, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 1543-8627, 1543-8635 |
DOI: | 10.1080/15438627.2016.1258642 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU201706004676 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
This study describes the epidemiology of “stinger” injuries in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men’s Football. About 57 NCAA Men’s Football programmes provided 153 team-seasons of injury data to the NCAA Injury Surveillance Programme (NCAA-ISP) during the 2009/2010–2014/2015 academic years. In the study period, 229 “stingers” were reported for an injury rate of 2.04/10,000 athlete-exposures (AE). Most “stingers” were reported during competitions (55.5%) and the preseason (80.3%) and resulted in time loss less than 24 hours (63.8%). One in five (18.8%) were recurrent. Most “stingers” were due to player contact (93.0%), particularly while tackling (36.7%) and blocking (25.8%) and occurred to defensive ends/linebackers (25.8%) and offensive linemen (23.6%). Although previous research reports a large prevalence of “stingers” among football players, the NCAA-ISP reported a relatively low injury rate. The transient nature of pain associated with “stingers” may have contributed to under-reporting, highlighting the need to deduce manners to increase reporting.