Table 4.
Mechanism of Injury in Schools with (HS RIO) and without (SISS) Athletic Trainers, 2006/07–2008/09
| HS RIO | SISS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanism of injury | N (%)a | Rate per 10,000 AEa | N (%) | Rate per 10,000 AE | RR (95% CI)b |
| Girls’ Soccer | |||||
| Player-player contact | 510 (42.5) | 9.78 | 78 (34.5) | 13.75 | 1.41 (1.11–1.78) |
| Player-surface contact | 168 (14.0) | 3.22 | 31 (13.7) | 5.46 | 1.70 (1.16–2.49) |
| Player-apparatus/equipment contact | 109 (9.1) | 2.09 | 9 (4.0) | 1.59 | 1.32 (0.67–2.60) |
| No contact/overuse | 389 (32.4) | 7.46 | 101 (44.7) | 17.80 | 2.39 (1.92–2.97) |
| Other | 24 (2.0) | 0.46 | 7 (3.1) | 1.23 | 2.68 (1.15–6.22) |
| Girls’ Basketball | |||||
| Player-player contact | 362 (36.8) | 6.44 | 47 (31.5) | 6.76 | 1.05 (0.77–1.42) |
| Player-surface contact | 222 (22.6) | 3.96 | 39 (26.2) | 5.61 | 1.42 (1.01–1.99) |
| Player-apparatus/equipment contact | 62 (6.3) | 1.10 | 7 (4.7) | 1.01 | 1.10 (0.50–2.40) |
| No contact/overuse | 303 (30.8) | 5.39 | 54 (36.2) | 7.77 | 1.44 (1.08–1.92) |
| Other | 34 (3.5) | 0.61 | 2 (1.3) | 0.30 | 2.10 (0.51–8.76) |
aAE = Athlete-exposure, with one athlete participating in one practice or one competition contributing one AE, 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