Key result
Badminton injuries peak in female university students' racket-side shoulders at ~4 per 1,000 exposures.
Why the study?
The study was conducted to examine the incidence of injury according to location of injury to help develop injury prevention programs for elite badminton players.
Cohort (n=133)
The study identifies specific high-risk injury locations in elite badminton players based on gender and school age, highlighting the need for targeted injury prevention programs.
Site-specific overuse and trauma patterns in junior badminton players support targeted prevention; observational data leaves open interventional confirmation.
[Purpose] The aim of study was to examine incidence of injury according to location of injury to develop an injury prevention program for elite badminton players of junior high school, high school, and university. [Participants and Methods] We conducted a prospective longitudinal study, between April 2012 and March 2013, on 133 national-level badminton players attending junior high school, high school, and university. Injury rates in athletes per 1,000 exposures were calculated based on gender and school age for the five most common injury locations, in addition, severity, type and circumstance were investigated. [Results] Injury rates in athletes per 1,000 exposures were the highest in the racket-side (RS) shoulder/clavicle among the female university students (4.35), RS thigh of high school females (2.21), and lumbar spine/lower back of males of all school ages and junior high school females (1.83-1.25). Significantly higher injury rates were noted for the overuse of the lumbar spine/lower back and RS shoulder/clavicle, trauma of the RS thigh and ankle, and injury, when compared with slight injury of the RS ankle. [Conclusion] Injury prevention programs should be developed for RS shoulder/clavicle overuse in university females, RS thigh trauma in high school females, and lumbar spine/lower back in males of all school ages and junior high school females.
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Miyake et al. (2022) conducted a cohort in Badminton injuries (n=133). Badminton training and match play was evaluated on Injury rates per 1,000 athlete exposures (AEs) by location. Badminton injury rates per 1,000 exposures were highest in the racket-side shoulder/clavicle among female university students (4.35), racket-side thigh of high school females (2.21), and lumbar spine/lower back of males and junior high school females (1.25-1.83).
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