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  • Epidemiology of shoulder injury in sub-elite level water polo players

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    Hams, Andrea
    Evans, Kerrie
    Adams, Roger
    Waddington, Gordon
    Witchalls, Jeremy
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    Hams, Andrea H.
    Year published
    2019
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    Objective: Investigate the patterns and circumstances of shoulder injury, in both male and female sub-elite water polo players, through evaluating the injury incidence, mechanism and subsequent training time lost. Design: :Retrospective cohort. Setting: Sports institute. Participants: 80 sub-elite water polo players. Main outcome measures: Total injury number and incidence, mechanism of injury, lost training time and time from injury onset to seeking treatment. Results: For the athlete self-report data set (2009–2013), 218 total injuries were reported with 54 (25%) being shoulder injuries. From 2014 to 2016, 133 ...
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    Objective: Investigate the patterns and circumstances of shoulder injury, in both male and female sub-elite water polo players, through evaluating the injury incidence, mechanism and subsequent training time lost. Design: :Retrospective cohort. Setting: Sports institute. Participants: 80 sub-elite water polo players. Main outcome measures: Total injury number and incidence, mechanism of injury, lost training time and time from injury onset to seeking treatment. Results: For the athlete self-report data set (2009–2013), 218 total injuries were reported with 54 (25%) being shoulder injuries. From 2014 to 2016, 133 physiotherapist-report injuries were recorded, the shoulder accounting for 21 (16%) of total injuries. The shoulder was the most frequently injured site and accounted for 25% of lost training days. Two thirds of shoulder injuries were due to overuse (67%). The average time between sustaining a shoulder injury and presenting to the team physiotherapist was 10 days. Conclusion: : Irrespective of data collection method, shoulder injuries were the most common injury for both male and female sub-elite water polo players. Future injury prevention strategies could address overuse through optimising throwing volumes, and include athlete education about injury management to determine whether reducing time delay between injury occurrence and seeking treatment improves outcomes.
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    Journal Title
    Physical Therapy in Sport
    Volume
    35
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ptsp.2018.12.001
    Copyright Statement
    © 2019 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Clinical sciences
    Sports science and exercise
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/386980
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