Awwad George Elias Habib, Coleman Jennifer Helen, Dunkley Christopher James, Dewar David Craig
John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Newcastle Knights Rugby League Club, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Sports Med Open. 2019 Jul 24;5(1):33. doi: 10.1186/s40798-019-0206-z.
Epidemiologic data in professional sport is becoming an increasingly valuable tool in identifying frequently occurring injuries and developing strategies to reduce their occurrence. Currently, there is a paucity of literature on the epidemiology of knee injuries in professional male rugby league players.
We retrospectively reviewed medical records from a single male professional rugby league team (Newcastle Knights), competing in Australia, and evaluated knee injuries and time to return to play.
In total, 89 knee injuries occurred, with an injury incidence of 616.7 injuries per 1000 players. The most frequently occurring knee injuries were medial collateral ligament (416.7 injuries per 1000 players) and chondral/meniscal injuries (416.7 injuries per 1000 players). For all injury types, being tackled was the most common mechanism of injury, and the median time to return to play was 1 day. Anterior cruciate ligament injuries accounted for the longest time to return to play (median 236.0 days).
Medial collateral ligament and chondral/meniscal injury types were the most frequent injuries; however, anterior cruciate ligament injuries accounted for the most time missed from sport despite being less common. Professional male rugby league players incur similar knee injury types compared to rugby union based upon our study and other similar studies.
职业体育中的流行病学数据正日益成为识别常见伤病并制定减少伤病发生策略的宝贵工具。目前，关于职业男子橄榄球联盟球员膝伤流行病学的文献匮乏。
我们回顾性分析了一支澳大利亚男子职业橄榄球联盟球队（纽卡斯尔喷气机队）的医疗记录，评估膝伤情况及伤后重返赛场的时间。
共发生89例膝伤，每1000名球员的伤病发生率为616.7例。最常见的膝伤是内侧副韧带损伤（每1000名球员中有416.7例）和软骨/半月板损伤（每1000名球员中有416.7例）。对于所有损伤类型，被擒抱是最常见的受伤机制，伤后重返赛场的中位时间为1天。前交叉韧带损伤的伤后重返赛场时间最长（中位时间为236.0天）。
内侧副韧带和软骨/半月板损伤是最常见的损伤类型；然而，前交叉韧带损伤尽管不太常见，但导致运动员缺赛的时间最长。根据我们的研究及其他类似研究，职业男子橄榄球联盟球员与橄榄球联合会球员的膝伤类型相似。
