Citation

Sanchis-Gimeno JA, Casas-Roman E, Garcia-Campero C, Hurtado-Fernandez R, Aparicio-Bellver L. Br. J. Sports Med. 2005; 39(9): 686.

Affiliation

Facultad de Medicina, Depto Anatomia y Embriologia Humana, Apartado correos 15038, Valencia 46080, Spain; juan.sanchis@uv.es

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bjsm.2005.019448

PMID

16118312

PMCID

PMC1725302

Abstract

Various studies have focused on sport injuries. In a previous report the incidence of injuries in athletes in a one year study was analysed using a sample size that was less than 150 subjects. It was hypothesised that subjects who were more involved in sport before injury (eight hours or more a week of sport and exercise) would exhibit a greater emotional response to injury and perceive their recovery to be less. In view of this we analysed a large sample of athletes (2701) who trained a minimum of 10 hours a week to see in which months of the year athletic training injuries were most common. In a one year prospective study (from January 2004 to December 2004) we recorded the number of training injuries sustained in a month by month fashion. The mean (SD) age of the subjects was 39.62 (12.98) (range 14-63).