Kent E. Timm is Research and Development Specialist at St. Luke's Healthcare Association, Saginaw, MI 48602.
J Athl Train. 1993 Winter;28(4):330-4.
We examined the incidence of health problems in elite-level amateur boxing athletes who sparred, trained, or competed at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado from January 1, 1977 through June 30, 1992. We think this is the first study to examine both injuries and illnesses in a population of elite-level athletes. We collected data on 1,776 reported problems (1219 injuries, 557 illnesses) from standard medical report forms completed by the permanent and volunteer sports medicine staff. We classified the information based on type, body region, location, description, and occurrence. There were significant differences between the frequency of injuries and illnesses and between the classifications and regions for each type of problem. Collectively, serious injuries represented only a relatively small percentage (6.1%) of all problems. We concluded that illnesses comprised a small but important portion of problems, that most illnesses involved respiratory tract infections (71%), that there is only a small risk for serious injury, and that injuries occur in a hierarchy of upper extremity (441, 25%), head/face (344, 19%), lower extremity (267, 15%), and spinal column (167, 9%) for amateur boxers.
我们调查了 1977 年 1 月 1 日至 1992 年 6 月 30 日期间在美国科罗拉多州科罗拉多斯普林斯的美国奥林匹克训练中心训练、比赛或对打训练的精英业余拳击运动员的健康问题发生率。我们认为这是首次对精英运动员人群的损伤和疾病进行的研究。我们从由常驻和志愿运动医学工作人员填写的标准医疗报告表中收集了 1776 例报告的问题（1219 例损伤，557 例疾病）的数据。我们根据类型、身体部位、位置、描述和发生情况对信息进行分类。损伤和疾病的频率以及每种类型问题的分类和部位之间存在显著差异。总的来说，严重损伤仅占所有问题的相对较小比例（6.1%）。我们的结论是，疾病占问题的一小部分但很重要，大多数疾病涉及呼吸道感染（71%），严重损伤的风险很小，损伤按照上肢（441，25%）、头部/面部（344，19%）、下肢（267，15%）和脊柱（167，9%）的层次发生在业余拳击手身上。
