Epidemiology of Injuries in the Professional Women's Swedish National IceHockey League Permitted to Body-Checking
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: No intervention will be conducted..
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Sport Injury, Ice-Skates Accident, Sports Accident, Female Athlete Triad. Basic parameters: 16 years — 110 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Sweden
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Swedish Female Ice Hockey Injury Study
Overview
This research project can contribute to a deeper understanding of injury patterns among professional female ice-hockey players allowed to body check. An understanding of common injury types and mechanisms aids the clinician in diagnosis and management. This information can guide preventative strategies in the areas of education, coaching, rule enforcement, rule modifications, equipment improvement, and sportsmanship. Today, ice hockey is a sport associated with many severe injuries that not only causes suffering and lower quality of life for the athlete, but also costs society a lot of money. Reducing the number and severity of sport-related injuries is therefore of importance. Knowledge of the injury epidemiology of women's hockey could also contribute to better preventive training programs and other injury preventive actions in the sport. Currently, only a minority of all sports medicine research is made on female study participants (26). This research project has the possibility to gain more knowledge about the female athlete, not only applicable for elite hockey-players, but also for female athletes in different disciplines and in youth teams. Knowledge of factors associated with injury could also contribute to better injury preventive actions and highlight subgroups in extra need of future preventive interventions.
Interventions
- Other No intervention will be conducted.
No intervention will be conducted.
Primary outcome measures
- Injuries per 1000 training hours [Time frame: 1 year]
- Injuries per 1000 game hours [Time frame: 1 year]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- minimum 16 years of age, registered player in the highest Swedish professional ice hockey league for women, SDHL
Exclusion criteria
- age under 16 years.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Sweden · 1 center
- The Faculty of Medicine at Lund University — Malmö
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06351618 · 2023-06114-01