Sport and recreation musculoskeletal injuries in Irish primary school children

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Título: Sport and recreation musculoskeletal injuries in Irish primary school children
Autor/es: O'Connor, Siobhan | Whyte, Enda | Chéilleachair, Niamh Ní
Palabras clave: Musculoskeletal injury | Elementary school | First aid | Physical activity | Child
Área/s de conocimiento: Educación Física y Deportiva
Fecha de publicación: 2020
Editor: Universidad de Alicante. Área de Educación Física y Deporte
Cita bibliográfica: Journal of Human Sport and Exercise. 2021, 16(2): 388-398. https://doi.org/10.14198/jhse.2021.162.13
Resumen: Musculoskeletal injury in children can lead to negative physical, psychological and socio-economic effects. This study aimed to examine sport and recreation injury incidence in Irish primary school children. A cross-sectional survey of 842 male and female Irish primary school children (9.62 ± 1.7 years) was conducted. Parents completed a questionnaire examining estimated weekly participation in sport and recreation and any injuries sustained in the previous 12 months that resulted in restricted performance, restricted ability to fully take part in or time lost from sport, recreational activities or school. Overall, 28.3% sustained an injury in one year, of which 30% presented to their local hospital emergency department. Sports injuries (.15 per 1,000 hours) were significantly more common than recreational injuries (.04 per 1,000 hours). Contact injuries were predominant (78.4%), with falling (19.3%), running (16.9%) and tackling/being tackled (16.5%) most common. Finger/thumb and ankle injuries were most common. Knee injuries resulted in the greatest injury burden (4.77 days absent per 1,000 hours of sport and recreation) and 3 in 10 injuries were referred for a scan. A multi-level approach to managing and reducing sport and recreation musculoskeletal injuries in primary school children that targets all relevant stakeholders including parents, teachers, coaches and the children themselves should be considered to promote safe play and sporting participation for children.
Patrocinador/es: Financial support for the publication of this article was provided by Athlone Institute of Technology.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/103417
ISSN: 1988-5202
DOI: 10.14198/jhse.2021.162.13
Idioma: eng
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Derechos: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Revisión científica: si
Versión del editor: https://doi.org/10.14198/jhse.2021.162.13
Aparece en las colecciones:Journal of Human Sport and Exercise - 2021, Vol. 16, No. 2

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