Verrall Geoffrey M, Esterman Adrian, Hewett Timothy E
South Australian Sports Institute, Adelaide, Australia ; SPORTSMED.SA Sports Medicine Clinic, Adelaide, Australia.
School of Nursery and Midwifery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Asian J Sports Med. 2014 Sep;5(3):e23072. doi: 10.5812/asjsm.23072. Epub 2014 Sep 10.
Injuries are common in contact sports like Australian football. The Australian Football League (AFL) has developed an extensive injury surveillance database that can be used for epidemiological studies.
The purpose of this study is to identify any association between the three most prevalent injuries in the AFL.
From the AFL injury surveillance data 1997-2012 the injury incidence (new injuries per club per season) and the injury prevalence data (missed games per club per season) were analysed to detect the three most common injuries that would cause a player to miss a match in the AFL. The three most prevalent injuries in the AFL are hamstring strains, groin/hip/osteitis pubis injuries and Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) knee injuries. Following this, further study was undertaken to detect the presence of any statistical relationship between injury incidences of the three most prevalent injuries over this sixteen year study period.
Statistical analysis demonstrates for any given year that there was an association between having a groin/hip/osteitis pubis injuriy and having a knee ACL injury (P < 0.05) over the entire sixteen years. In other words if the number of groin/hip/osteitis pubis injuries in any given season were higher than average (alternatively lower) then the number of knee ACL injuries were also higher than average (alternatively lower) for that same season. Hamstring injuries had the highest variance of incidence of the three most prevalent injuries.
Analysis of the AFL injury data demonstrates an association between incidence of groin/hip/osteitis pubis injuries and incidence of knee ACL injuries for any given playing season. This finding is difficult to explain with further research being required.
在澳大利亚式足球等接触性运动中，受伤情况很常见。澳大利亚足球联盟（AFL）建立了一个广泛的伤病监测数据库，可用于流行病学研究。
本研究的目的是确定澳大利亚足球联盟中三种最常见伤病之间的任何关联。
从1997 - 2012年澳大利亚足球联盟伤病监测数据中，分析伤病发生率（每个俱乐部每个赛季的新伤病例数）和伤病流行率数据（每个俱乐部每个赛季错过的比赛场次），以找出在澳大利亚足球联盟中会导致球员错过比赛的三种最常见伤病。澳大利亚足球联盟中三种最常见的伤病是腘绳肌拉伤、腹股沟/髋部/耻骨炎损伤和前交叉韧带（ACL）膝关节损伤。在此之后，进一步开展研究以检测在这16年研究期间这三种最常见伤病的发生率之间是否存在任何统计关系。
统计分析表明，在整个16年中，对于任何给定年份，腹股沟/髋部/耻骨炎损伤和膝关节ACL损伤之间存在关联（P < 0.05）。换句话说，如果在任何给定赛季中腹股沟/髋部/耻骨炎损伤的数量高于平均水平（或者低于平均水平），那么同一赛季中膝关节ACL损伤的数量也高于平均水平（或者低于平均水平）。腘绳肌损伤在三种最常见伤病中发生率的方差最大。
对澳大利亚足球联盟伤病数据的分析表明，在任何给定比赛赛季中，腹股沟/髋部/耻骨炎损伤的发生率与膝关节ACL损伤的发生率之间存在关联。这一发现难以解释，需要进一步研究。
