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| Author(s): | Hagel, Brent E.;
Fick, Gordon H.;
Meeuwisse, Willem H. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Hagel: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Fick: Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine; Meeuwisse: University of Calgary Sport Medicine Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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| Title: | Injury risk in men's Canada West University football |
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| Source: | American Journal of Epidemiology. Vol. 157, No. 9, May 2003, p. 825-833. |
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| Publishing Information: | Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health |
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| # of Pages: | 9 |
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| Related Web URL: | https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/157/9/825/97439/Injury-Risk-in-Men-s-Canada-West-University
Last checked: 02/10/2017
Notes: Abstract only |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Athletic injury incidence; Football; Natural versus artificial turf; Sports turf safety
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Injury and participation information was collected over 5 years (1993-1997) on varsity men's football players in the Canada West Universities Athletic Association. The locations of acute time-loss injuries or neurologic injures were coded as head and neck, upper extremity (shoulder to hand), or lower extremity (hip to foot). Poisson regression-based generalized estimating equations were used to estimate rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals. Injury rates were higher during games as compared with practice periods (for the head and neck, rate ratio (RR)=9.75 (95% confidence interval (CI): 7.50, 12.67); for upper extremities, RR=5.76 (95% CI: 4.46, 7.45); and for lower extremities, RR=7.06 (95% CI: 6.03, 8.25)). In the dry-field game situations, head and neck injury rates were 1.59 times higher on artificial turf than on natural grass (95% CI: 1.04, 2.42). Lower extremity agame injury rates were higher on artificial turn than on natural grass under both dry (RR=1.83, 95% CI:1.35, 2.48) and wet (RR=2.31, 95% CI: 1.18, 4.52) field conditions. Injury rates increased with every additional year of participation. Past injury increased the rate of subsequent injury. The effects of an artificial field surface may be related to infrequent use. Risk factors for injury included participation in a game, playing on artificial turf, being a veteran player, and having a past injury." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 31 |
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| Note: | Partial reprint appears in Sports Turf Manager, Winter 2003, p. 8, with variant title "Study looks at injuries with artificial turfgrass: types and causes of injurues in Canadian football players"
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Hagel, B. E., G. H. Fick, and W. H. Meeuwisse. 2003. Injury risk in men's Canada West University football. Am. J. Epidemiol. 157(9):p. 825-833. |
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