@article{ref1,
title="Injury in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 2015 to 2019",
journal="Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation",
year="2020",
author="Baker, Hayden and Rizzi, Andrew and Athiviraham, Aravind",
volume="2",
number="3",
pages="213-217",
abstract="PURPOSE: To provide an overview of the injuries suffered by Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) athletes and to analyze the demographic data, injury rates, and games missed as a result of individual injuries.   Methods: Using publicly available data on WNBA player's injury history, we generated a database cataloguing the quantity, location, frequency, and longitudinal impact of injuries sustained during the WNBA regular season from 2015 to 2019. We analyzed the data using SPSS-25 data manipulation software to assess the number of injuries per athletic exposure.   Results: Lower-extremity injuries (n = 143, 73%) were the most common injury by body area and resulted in the greatest number of games missed (n = 1189, 88%). Lateral ankle sprains were the most frequent injury (n = 39, 20%), with a rate of 1.19 injuries per 1000 athletic exposures. Torn anterior cruciate ligaments (n = 18, 9.2%) were the most devastating, resulting in the greatest number of games missed (n=376, 28%).   Conclusions: Our findings corroborate previous notions that lower-extremity injuries are the greatest source of injury in this population. Ankle injuries were the most frequent injury reported by pathology, while knee injuries carried the most long-term impact on games missed due to injury.  Level of Evidence: IV, Epidemiological study.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2666-061X",
doi="10.1016/j.asmr.2020.02.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asmr.2020.02.003"
}