Table 2.
Injury locations and injury types in male and female amateur football players
| Injury locations | Sex | Injury types | Prevalence weeks | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sudden onset | Gradual onset | |||||||
| Contusion | Fracture | Joint sprain/ dislocation |
Muscle injury | Other sudden onset | ||||
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n | ||
| Head/neck | Male | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (100%) | 1 |
| Female | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 26 (54.2%) | 22 (45.8%) | 48 | |
| Trunk | Male | 1 (14.3%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (57.1%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (28.6%) | 7 |
| Female | 8 (9.6%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (6%) | 2 (2.4%) | 68 (81.9%) | 83 | |
| Upper extremity | Male | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 6 (85.7%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (14.3%) | 0 (0%) | 7 |
| Female | 4 (11.8%) | 5 (14.7%) | 10 (29.4%) | 4 (11.8%) | 2 (5.9%) | 9 (26.5%) | 34 | |
| Hip/groin | Male | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 6 (7.5%) | 0 (0%) | 74 (92.5%) | 80 |
| Female | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 24 (24.2%) | 0 (0%) | 75 (75.8%) | 99 | |
| Posterior thigh | Male | 1 (2.4%) | 0 (0%) | N/A | 32 (78.0%) | 0 (0%) | 8 (19.5%) | 41 |
| Female | 1 (1.0%) | 0 (0%) | N/A | 43 (42.6%) | 0 (0%) | 57 (56.4%) | 101 | |
| Anterior thigh | Male | 1 (4.8%) | 0 (0%) | N/A | 12 (57.1%) | 0 (0%) | 8 (38.1%) | 21 |
| Female | 8 (12.1%) | 0 (0%) | N/A | 32 (48.5%) | 0 (0%) | 26 (39.4%) | 66 | |
| Knee | Male | 2 (5.0%) | 0 (0%) | 8 (20.0%) | N/A | 6 (15.0%) | 24 (60.0%) | 40 |
| Female | 20 (5.8%) | 0 (0%) | 115 (33.1%) | N/A | 2 (0.6%) | 210 (60.5%) | 347 | |
| Lower leg/Achilles tendon | Male | 1 (6.7%) | 0 (0%) | N/A | 3 (20.0%) | 0 (0%) | 11 (73.3%) | 15 |
| Female | 1 (0.6%) | 2 (1.2%) | N/A | 5 (3.1%) | 0 (0%) | 154 (95.1%) | 162 | |
| Ankle | Male | 3 (6.1%) | 0 (0%) | 32 (65.3%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 14 (28.6%) | 49 |
| Female | 28 (12.3%) | 0 (0%) | 126 (55.3%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (0.4%) | 73 (32.0%) | 228 | |
| Foot/toe | Male | 3 (23.1%) | 1 (7.7%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (15.4%) | 7 (53.8%) | 13 |
| Female | 15 (13.0%) | 1 (0.9%) | 2 (1.7%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (3.5%) | 93 (80.9%) | 115 | |
| Unspecified location | Male | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (100%) | 1 |
| Female | 1 (11.1%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 8 (88.9%) | 9 | |
| All locations | Male | 12 (4.6%) | 1 (0.4%) | 46 (17.6%) | 57 (21.8%) | 9 (3.4%) | 150 (57.3%) | 262 |
| Female | 86 (7.1%) | 8 (0.7%) | 253 (21.0%) | 113 (9.4%) | 37 (3.1%) | 795 (65.9%) | 1206 | |
N/A, not applicable