title: Injuries in adolescent female players in European football: a prospective study over one outdoor soccer season.
abstract: In this prospective study, injuries in 153 adolescent female soccer players were recorded during one outdoor season (April-October). The overall injury incidence rate was 6.8 per 1000 h soccer (games and practice) and the incidence rate of traumatic injury 9.1 and 1.5 per 1000 player-hours in games and practice, respectively. Sixty-three players (41%) sustained 79 injuries. Sixty-six percent of the injuries were traumatic and 34% were overuse injuries. Most of the traumatic injuries occurred during games. Eighty-nine percent of the injuries were located in the lower extremities and 42% occurred in the knee or ankle. The most frequent type of injury was ankle sprain (22.8%). Forty-one percent of the traumatic injuries and 56% of the ankle sprains were re-injuries. Most of the injuries were of moderate severity (52%), while 34% were minor and 14% were major. Most of the major injuries were traumatic such as knee ligament injuries and ankle sprains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical and Perioperative Science, Sports Medicine Unit, Umeå University, Sweden.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Söderman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Adolphson
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lorentzon
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Alfredson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012916:Soccer / Q000293:injuries*; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology