Centro de Traumatologia do Esporte, Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brasil.
Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2011;66(10):1707-12. doi: 10.1590/s1807-59322011001000007.
This study aims to establish a national methodological model for epidemiological studies on professional soccer player injuries and to describe the numerous relevant studies previously published on this topic.
The risk of injury in professional soccer is high. However, previous studies of injury risk in Brazil and other countries have been characterized by large variations in study design and data collection methods as well as definitions of injury, standardized diagnostic criteria, and recovery times.
A system developed by the Union of European Football for epidemiological studies on professional soccer players is being used as a starting point to create a methodological model for the Brazilian Football Association. To describe the existing studies on professional soccer player injuries, we developed a search strategy to identify relevant epidemiological studies. We included the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences and Medline databases in our study.
We considered 60 studies from Medline and 16 studies from the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences in the final analysis. Twelve studies were selected for final inclusion in this review: seven from the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences and five from Medline. We identified a lack of uniformity in the study design, data collection methods, injury definitions, standardized diagnostic criteria, and the definition of recovery time. Based on the information contained within these articles, we developed a model for epidemiological studies for the Brazilian Football Association.
There is no uniform model for epidemiological studies of professional soccer injuries. Here, we propose a novel model to be applied for epidemiological studies of professional soccer player injuries in Brazil and throughout the world.
本研究旨在建立一个国家性的足球运动员损伤流行病学研究方法学模型，并描述该主题已发表的大量相关研究。
职业足球运动员的受伤风险较高。然而，巴西和其他国家之前关于损伤风险的研究在研究设计和数据收集方法以及损伤定义、标准化诊断标准和康复时间方面存在较大差异。
采用欧洲足球联合会为职业足球运动员损伤流行病学研究制定的系统作为创建巴西足球协会方法学模型的起点。为了描述职业足球运动员损伤的现有研究，我们制定了一项搜索策略来确定相关的流行病学研究。我们的研究纳入了拉丁美洲和加勒比卫生科学中心和 Medline 数据库。
我们最终分析了 Medline 的 60 项研究和拉丁美洲和加勒比卫生科学中心的 16 项研究。最终纳入了 12 项研究进行综述：7 项来自拉丁美洲和加勒比卫生科学中心，5 项来自 Medline。我们发现研究设计、数据收集方法、损伤定义、标准化诊断标准和康复时间方面缺乏一致性。基于这些文章中的信息，我们为巴西足球协会制定了一个流行病学研究模型。
目前尚无针对职业足球损伤的统一的流行病学研究模型。在此，我们提出了一个新的模型，可用于巴西乃至全球的职业足球运动员损伤的流行病学研究。
