@article{ref1,
title="Prevention of school sport injuries - an analysis of different ballsports in 2234 injuries",
journal="Sportverletzung, Sportschaden",
year="2005",
author="Knobloch, Karsten and Rossner, D. and Jagodzinski, M. and Zeichen, J. and Gossling, T. and Martin-Schmitt, S. and Richter, Matthias and Krettek, Christian",
volume="19",
number="2",
pages="82-88",
abstract="PURPOSE: Ball sport school injuries account for a significant morbidity among children and adolescents. MATERIALS AND METHODS: During a school year 2234 school sport injuries have been reported to the Gemeinde Unfall Versicherung (GUV) Niedersachsen, Germany. RESULTS: Regarding the non-gender-specific distribution of the ball sport disciplines, basketball leads with 32 % (n = 431), followed by soccer (24 %, n = 316), volleyball (17 %, n = 232), handball (8.3 %, n = 110) and hockey (4.9 %, n = 65). Sprains (27 %) dominate in basketball, followed by ligament distorsions and ruptures (23 %) and fractures (21 %), with frequent finger injuries (61 %) without contact of an opponent, and injuries of the lower extremity (28 %). Soccer leads to contusions (29 %), in 52 % of the lower extremity frequently after collision with an opponent (22 %) or the ball (20 %). In volleyball upper extremity injuries (71 %) dominate with 53 % finger sprains in individual volleyball play. CONCLUSION: Ball school sport injuries account for a significant morbidity with frequent finger injuries. Proprioceptive deficits may play a role in those finger injuries in basketball, volleyball and handball. During hockey, severe dental and facial injuries were apparent. A prospective proprioceptive trainings program aiming on fingers and the ankle region may therefore be a preventive measure such as helmets with facial protection in hockey school sport.",
language="",
issn="0932-0555",
doi="10.1055/s-2005-858142",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2005-858142"
}