November 17, 2006The American Journal of Sports Medicine

Epidemiology of 1.6 Million Pediatric Soccer-Related Injuries Presenting to US Emergency Departments from 1990 to 2003

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Population

Children 2 to 18 years of age presenting to US emergency departments with soccer-related injuries from 1990…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

RLRobert LeiningerMigrant Clinicians Network CKChristy L. KnoxUniversity College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust RCR. Dawn ComstockBoston University

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Implication

Informs targeted prevention in youth soccer; cross-sectional data leaves open causal links and modern applicability.

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Population

Children 2 to 18 years of age presenting to US emergency departments with soccer-related injuries from 1990 to 2003 (estimated n=1,597,528), mean age 13.2 years, 58.6% male.

Outcome

Soccer-related injuries presenting to emergency departments (including injured body parts and diagnoses)

From 1990 to 2003, an estimated 1.6 million pediatric soccer-related injuries presented to US emergency departments, with distinct injury patterns observed between boys and girls and across age groups.

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Leininger et al. (2006) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a107a4928c2d29469fe7e8a https://doi.org/10.1177/0363546506294060

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Epidemiology of 1.6 Million Pediatric Soccer-Related Injuries Presenting to US Emergency Departments from 1990 to 2003

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Epidemiology of 1.6 Million Pediatric Soccer-Related Injuries Presenting to US Emergency Departments from 1990 to 2003

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