Sports-Related Injuries in Adolescent Athletes

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Adolescents play according to the rules of adults and the apparatuses are not adjusted to their sizes, maturity, motor and functional adaptation. Understanding sports related injuries in adolescent athletes can lead to the implementation of injury-prevention strategies. The aim of the study is to evaluate the findings of sports related injuries in adolescent athletes published in the international journals selected from the databases according to pre-defined criteria.. This study is a review of research articles devoted to sports related injuries in adolescents. A literature search using key terms sports injuries, epidemiology, injury rate, adolescent athletes extracted 1307 citations from PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus and Clinical Key databases out of which 354 relevant open access full-text articles where extracted and looked through. Four articles that fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected.. The total number of the subjects of the selected studies comprises 4932 respondents aged from 12 to 21. Three of the articles show that the highest percentage of injuries were in the lower body. Ankle injuries comprise from 20.0% to 36.1%; knee from 15.7% to 19.3%. Muscle strains (from 7.8% to 33.7%), ligament sprains (from 8.5% to 26.0%), and bone fractures (from 7.8% to 16.0%) were reported as the most common injuries. The applied measurement systems of injury rates differ across the publications; therefore they could not be analysed all together.. The results show that most commonly injuries occur in the lower body – ankle and knees – resulting in muscle strains, ligament sprains, and bone fractures. Ankle injuries were the most common. These findings point out the need for a registration system of sports related injuries in Latvia to compile and analyse data for the prevention of sports related injuries in adolescent athletes.
Period29 Mar 2023
Event titleRSU International Research Conference 2023: Knowledge for Use in Practice
Event typeConference
OrganiserRīga Stradiņš University
LocationRiga, LatviaShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

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