Key result
Track and field sports activity was associated with an injury incidence of 1.8 per 1000 hours of practice, with 57% of athletes sustaining injuries over 1 year.
Cohort (n=54)
Track athletes have a high incidence of injuries, particularly overuse injuries in runners and take-off/downstroke injuries in jumpers, with a significant proportion experiencing prolonged complaints.
High injury burden in track athletes supports targeted monitoring; leaves open prospective trials of prevention strategies.
During one year 4398 injured athletes were treated at the casualty wards of Aarhus, Denmark; 156 were practicing track and field disciplines. In the same period 54 track athletes of a Danish sport club were followed in order to register any lesion incurred during sports activity. Thirty‐one athletes (57%) had 35 injuries, giving an injury incidence of 1.8 per 1000 hours of practice. At follow‐up after 1 year, 13% of all athletes still had complaints, and none of them had returned to former sports activity. Jumpers had overuse symptoms correlated to take‐off, and sprains or fractures related to downstrokes. Runners had a higher risk of overuse injuries than jumpers, especially involving the Achilles tendon and the plantar aponeurosis. Young athletes had a higher injury incidence per time than older participants; and women had higher injury risk than men.
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Jakobsen et al. (1993) conducted a cohort in Sports injuries (n=54). Track and field sports activity was evaluated on Injury incidence. Track and field sports activity was associated with an injury incidence of 1.8 per 1000 hours of practice, with 57% of athletes sustaining injuries over 1 year.
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