Table 2.
The prevalence and 95% confidence interval (CI) of previous severe hand injury, hand pain, hand OA and wrist OA in former cricket and rugby player samples and by playing position.
| Cricket sample | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All players (N = 127) | Wicketkeepers (N = 17) | Batsmen (N = 35) | Bowlers/all-rounders (N = 75) | |||||
| N | % (95% CI) | N | % (95% CI) | N | % (95% CI) | N | % (95% CI) | |
| Severe hand injury | 46 | 36.2% (28.2–45.0%) | 5 | 29.4% (11.5–57.1%) | 14 | 40.0% (24.7–57.6%) | 27 | 36.0% (25.8–47.7%) |
| NHANES hand pain | 25 | 19.7% (13.6–27.6%)a | 6 | 35.3% (15.2–62.3%) | 6 | 17.1% (7.6–34.3%) | 13 | 17.3% (10.2–27.9%) |
| Physician-diagnosed hand OA | 3 | 2.4% (0.8–7.2%) | 0 | – | 1 | 2.9% (0.4–19.2%) | 2 | 2.7% (0.6–10.3%) |
| Physician-diagnosed wrist OA | 2 | 1.6% (0.4–6.2%) | 0 | – | 0 | – | 2 | 2.7% (0.6–10.3%) |
| Rugby sample | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All players (N = 140) |
Forwards (N = 63) |
Backs (N = 77) |
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| N | % (95% CI) | N | % (95% CI) | N | % (95% CI) | |
| Previous severe hand Injury | 44 | 31.4% (24.2–39.7%) | 25 | 39.7% (28.1–52.5%) | 19 | 24.7% (16.2–35.8%) |
| NHANES hand pain | 14 | 10.0% (6.0–16.3%)a | 9 | 14.3% (7.5–25.6%) | 5 | 6.5% (2.7– 14.9%) |
| Physician-diagnosed Hand OA | 5 | 3.6% (1.5– 8.4%) | 3 | 4.8% (1.5–14.1%) | 2 | 2.6% (0.6–10.1%) |
| Physician-diagnosed Wrist OA | 3 | 2.1% (0.7–6.5%) | 1 | 1.6% (0.2–10.9%) | 2 | 2.6% (0.6– 10.1%) |
a
Denotes differences in characteristic between cricket and rugby samples (p < 0.05).