Citation

Liller KD, Jang S, Wong S, Morris B, Lee SY. Int. J. Hum. Mov. Sci. 2015; 9(2): 5-23.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Korean Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (KAHPERD))

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Abstract

Injury surveillance needs to be conducted so that tailored interventions for high school athletes may be implemented. The purposes of this study are to report the 2013-2014 injuries of high school athletes in 15 West Central Florida schools utilizing the Reporting Information Online (RIO) data system and to garnish support for the role of surveillance in planning injury prevention programs for athletes. Certified athletic trainers (ATCs) were hired and trained by researchers from the University of South Florida Sports Medicine and Athletic-Related Trauma Institute (SMART) to collect and report injury findings from the high school athletes. Descriptive statistics, injury rates, and risk ratios were calculated utilizing SAS (Version 9.3). Overall, 574 injuries were reported by the ATCs. The majority of athletes injured were male (68.4%). American football was the leading sport (270, 47.0%) for number of injuries. The leading rate of injury per 1000 athlete-exposures for practices was for women''s lacrosse at 3.36 and for competition, football at 14.4. Boys had significantly greater injury rates compared to girls overall. The results of this study point to the need for collecting high school athletes'' sports injury data and using the findings for the implementation and management of tailored injury prevention programs.

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