TY - JOUR
T1 - Epidemiology of bone stress injuries in Australian high performance athletes
T2 - A retrospective cohort study
AU - Ruddick, Gemma K.
AU - Lovell, Gregory A.
AU - Drew, Michael K.
AU - Fallon, Kieran E.
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to acknowledge the Australian Institute of Sport for allowing access to the Athlete Management System to provide the data for this study and the clinicians who entered the data. There was no financial support associated with this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - Objectives: To examine the epidemiology of bone stress injuries in an elite sports institute. Design: Retrospective cohort study at the Australian Institute of Sport. Methods: A retrospective analysis of the clinical records contained within the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete Management System electronic database was performed. Records with Orchard Sports Injury Classification System codes relating to bone stress injuries and stress fractures were reviewed and descriptive statistics relating to sport, site of injury, athlete age, sex and activity were analysed. Results: In the three-year period January 2014–2017, 11,942 injuries were recorded across 48 sports. 181 bone stress injuries (0.15% of all injuries) were recorded across 16 sports. BSIs in the foot and lumbar spine were the most common accounting for 30% and 23% of all the reported BSIs respectively. Gymnasts had a high frequency of lumbar spine stress injuries (n = 24, 51%) and rowers had a high frequency of rib stress injuries (n = 22, 88%). The most common location for stress injuries, equally distributed across a variety of sports, were in the foot (n = 54, 30%). Female athletes recorded more BSIs than males. Conclusion: Across a three-year period, 0.15% of injuries were related to bone stress injuries. Almost double the cases were recorded in female athletes. Sport specific injury sites were observed in the dataset.
AB - Objectives: To examine the epidemiology of bone stress injuries in an elite sports institute. Design: Retrospective cohort study at the Australian Institute of Sport. Methods: A retrospective analysis of the clinical records contained within the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete Management System electronic database was performed. Records with Orchard Sports Injury Classification System codes relating to bone stress injuries and stress fractures were reviewed and descriptive statistics relating to sport, site of injury, athlete age, sex and activity were analysed. Results: In the three-year period January 2014–2017, 11,942 injuries were recorded across 48 sports. 181 bone stress injuries (0.15% of all injuries) were recorded across 16 sports. BSIs in the foot and lumbar spine were the most common accounting for 30% and 23% of all the reported BSIs respectively. Gymnasts had a high frequency of lumbar spine stress injuries (n = 24, 51%) and rowers had a high frequency of rib stress injuries (n = 22, 88%). The most common location for stress injuries, equally distributed across a variety of sports, were in the foot (n = 54, 30%). Female athletes recorded more BSIs than males. Conclusion: Across a three-year period, 0.15% of injuries were related to bone stress injuries. Almost double the cases were recorded in female athletes. Sport specific injury sites were observed in the dataset.
KW - Gymnastics
KW - Injury
KW - Sport
KW - Stress fractures
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jsams.2019.06.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jsams.2019.06.008
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85068833283
SN - 1440-2440
VL - 22
SP - 1114
EP - 1118
JO - Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
JF - Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
IS - 10
ER -