Table 3.
Injured Body Sites in Schools with (HS RIO) and without (SISS) Athletic Trainers, 2006/07–2008/09
| HS RIO | SISS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%)a | Rate per 10,000 AEa | N (%) | Rate per 10,000 AE | RR (95% CI)b | |
| Girls’ Soccer | |||||
| Head/facec | 186 (15.5) | 3.57 | 6 (2.7) | 1.06 | 3.37 (1.48–7.61) |
| Hip/thigh/upper leg | 195 (16.2) | 3.74 | 36 (15.9) | 6.34 | 1.70 (1.19–2.42) |
| Knee | 250 (20.8) | 4.79 | 68 (30.1) | 11.98 | 2.50 (1.91–3.27) |
| Lower leg | 96 (8.0) | 1.84 | 13 (5.8) | 2.29 | 1.24 (0.70–2.23) |
| Ankle | 253 (21.1) | 4.85 | 73 (32.3) | 12.86 | 2.65 (2.04–3.43) |
| Foot | 73 (6.1) | 1.40 | 9 (4.0) | 1.59 | 1.13 (0.57–2.26) |
| Other | 148 (12.3) | 2.84 | 21 (9.3) | 3.70 | 1.30 (0.82–2.05) |
| Girls’ Basketball | |||||
| Head/face | 157 (16.1) | 2.80 | 5 (3.4) | 0.72 | 3.90 (1.60–9.49) |
| Hand/wrist | 89 (9.1) | 1.58 | 8 (5.4) | 1.14 | 1.39 (0.67–2.87) |
| Hip/thigh/upper leg | 63 (6.4) | 1.11 | 5 (3.4) | 0.72 | 1.55 (0.62–3.85) |
| Knee | 185 (18.9) | 3.29 | 53 (36.1) | 7.63 | 2.32 (1.71–3.15) |
| Ankle | 289 (29.6) | 5.15 | 55 (37.4) | 7.91 | 1.54 (1.15–2.05) |
| Other | 194 (19.8) | 3.45 | 21 (14.3) | 3.02 | 1.14 (0.73–1.79) |
aAE = Athlete-exposure, one athlete participating in one practice or one competition; total N may not add to those found in Table 1 due to missing data
bAll RRs calculated with the lower of the two rates as referent group – the group with the significantly higher rate is bolded; CI denotes Confidence Interval. Bolded CIs indicate significance at alpha = 0.05
cHead/face includes all injury diagnoses to this body region, including concussions