title: Injuries in professional rugby league. A three-year prospective study of the South Sydney Professional Rugby League Football Club.
abstract: In this 3-year prospective study, the incidence and nature of injuries incurred by a professional rugby league football club were investigated. During the 1989, 1990, and 1991 season games, 141 injuries occurred throughout the first, second, and under-21 age teams, which resulted in players missing subsequent games. The incidence of injury was 44.9 per 1000 player-position game hours, which is high when compared with other sports. Of these injuries, 37.6% were classified as minor, 34.8% as moderate, and 27.6% as major. The classification was based on the number of subsequent games missed: minor injuries caused a player to miss one game; moderate, two to four games; and major, five or more games. Ligament and joint injuries comprised 53.9% of all injuries, and the knee was the most common area injured (24.1%). The commonest specific injuries were to the medial collateral ligament of the knee and to the groin musculotendinous unit (10.6% each).
authors.affiliation: South Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre, Maroubra, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gibbs
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology; D001924:Brain Concussion / Q000453:epidemiology; D005538:Football / Q000145:classification / Q000293:injuries* / Q000502:physiology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology; D006119:Groin / Q000293:injuries; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007596:Joints / Q000293:injuries; D007718:Knee Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D017888:Medial Collateral Ligament, Knee / Q000293:injuries; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology; D009132:Muscles / Q000293:injuries; D009517:New South Wales / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012008:Recurrence; D000070599:Shoulder Injuries; D013708:Tendon Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology; D013997:Time Factors