Sports injuries in a professional Chilean soccer team: A prospective epidemiology study during three seasons (2017, 2018, 2019)
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https://doi.org/10.59856/arch.soc.chil.med.deporte.v66i1.16Keywords:
Epidemiology, Professional soccer, InjuryAbstract
Aim: Soccer players are exposed to an increased risk of injury. This generates important consequences both to the players and the team. Hence, mainly we aimed to describe the incidence and frequency of sports injuries, and the location and the kind of sports injuries in the professional soccer team Santiago Wanderers during the seasons 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Materials and Methods: 123 Chilean professional soccer players (13 goalkeepers, 37 defenders, 35 midfielders, 38 forwards, 23.9 ± 5.1 years, and 73.1 ± 6.2 kg) were included prospectively for the seasons 2017, 2018, and 2019. The traumatic and recurrent injuries, their kind, location, severity, and mechanism of the injuries were considered.
Results: In the seasons 2017, 2018, and 2019 occurred a total of 61 (31.8%), 78 (40.6%), and 53 (27.6%) injuries, respectively. The injured players lost with a median of 8 [3-24] days. On average, each player had 1.5 injuries (192 injuries / 123 players) by season. The incidence was large during competitive matches rather than the training. The main incidence of the injuries was 4.4 injuries by 1,000 hrs of the exposition (2.6 injuries by 1,000 hrs of training and 36.6 injuries by 1,000 hrs of matches).
Discussion: The incidence of the injuries was bigger in matches than in training. The frequent injury was in the lower limb, muscular, traumatic, and located in the thigh. The moderate and severe injuries were that generate the most loss of days in a season. This mainly affects forwards and defenders.
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