title: Sports injuries in the Services 1969-1980.
abstract: This paper reviews sports injuries in the Armed Services 1969-1980 to establish their incidence and to analyse trends over time. There were on average 2135 sports injuries per year showing a falling trend over time until 1979 and then rising. Playing soccer was the cause of 43% of the sports injuries over the years 1969-1980. By far the greatest proportion 85% the injuries occurred in the under 30 age group. The number of medical discharges fell until 1974 when it rose to a new level of between 22 and 31 per year. The number of deaths showed no particular trend over time but half of the deaths were caused by drowning.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008887:Military Medicine