[Evaluation of sport injuries in children and adolescents].
During 1992, 541 sport injuries (6.3% of the 8641 surgical emergencies) were recorded at Lenval's hospital pediatric emergency ward in Nice. There were a majority of boys (62%), and the mean age was 11.2 years. Thirty one sports were represented, mainly soccer (18.5%), bicycle (12.2%), basketball (9.4%), gymnastics (9.4%), ski (9.2%) and equitation (7.8%). Injuries occurred during competition in 12.7% of the cases, school practice in 36.3%, and free practice in 51%. Lesions concerned head and face in 15.5% of cases, the trunk in 9.2%, and limbs in 75.3% with a majority of twists and benign contusions. The hospitalisation's rate was 14.4%, and a surgical intervention with anesthesia was performed in 7.6% of cases to treat one shoulder dislocation and 42 limb fractures. Thirty percent of children were confirmed sportsmen/women, 40% of them were involved in competitive sports, the most frequently concerned sports being soccer (24.6%), basketball (18%), fighting sports (11.4%; 7.2% = judo), gymnastic (10.1%), tennis (7.9%) and equitation (6.7%). From this study most sports injuries in children appears benign even if some fractures led to hospitalisation and orthopedic surgery; this is possibly related to the quality of education and coaching, particularly during physical training at school.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies
Evaluation des traumatismes sportifs de l'enfant et de l'adolescent.