TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Epidemiology of musculoskeletal injuries in adult athletes: a scoping review
JO  - Medicina (Lithuania)
A1  - Gimigliano, Francesca
A1  - Resmini, Giuseppina
A1  - Moretti, Antimo
A1  - Aulicino, Milena
A1  - Gargiulo, Fiorinda
A1  - Gimigliano, Alessandra
A1  - Liguori, Sara
A1  - Paoletta, Marco
A1  - Iolascon, Giovanni
SP  - e1118
EP  - e1118
VL  - 57
IS  - 10
N2  - Background and Objectives: Sport-related musculoskeletal injuries (MSK-Is) are a common health issue in athletes that can lead to reduced performance. The aim of this scoping review was to synthetize available evidence on injury incidence rates (IIRs), types, and sites that affect the musculoskeletal (MSK) system of adult athletes. <br><br>MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed a scoping review on the Pubmed database limiting our search to 33 Olympic sports. <br><br>RESULTS: We identified a total of 1022 papers, and of these 162 were examined in full for the purpose of this review. Archery was the sport with the highest risk of injuries to the upper extremities, marathons for the lower extremities, and triathlon and weightlifting for the body bust. In the majority of the sports examined, muscle/tendon strain and ligament sprain were the most common MSK-Is diagnoses, while athletics, karate, and football [soccer] were the sports with the highest IIRs, depending on the methods used for their calculations. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Our scoping review highlighted the general lack and dishomogeneity in the collection of data on MSK-Is in athletes.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1010-660X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57101118
ID  - ref1
ER  -