Table 2.
Medical Attention and Time-Loss Injuries by Skeletal Maturity Statusa
| Skeletal Maturity | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Late | Normal | Early | Mature | Total | |
| Body part injured | |||||
| Head and trunk | 2 (6.3) | 39 (8.7) | 66 (9.5) | 26 (6.6) | 133 (8.5) |
| Upper limb | 1 (3.1) | 39 (8.7) | 62 (9.0) | 22 (5.6) | 124 (7.9) |
| Lower limb | 29 (90.6) | 368 (82.6) | 564 (81.5) | 347 (87.8) | 1308 (83.6) |
| Injury origin | |||||
| Training | 22 (68.8) | 205 (46.0) | 300 (43.4) | 209 (52.9) | 736 (47.1) |
| Match | 10 (31.3) | 241 (54.0) | 392 (56.6) | 186 (47.1) | 829 (52.9) |
| Injury type | |||||
| Contact | 12 (37.5) | 187 (41.9) | 287 (41.5) | 146 (37.0) | 632 (40.4) |
| Noncontact | 20 (62.5) | 259 (58.1) | 405 (58.5) | 249 (63.0) | 933 (59.6) |
| Severity | |||||
| Severe (>4 wk) | 4 (12.5) | 53 (11.9) | 57 (8.2) | 52 (13.2) | 166 (10.6) |
| Major (8-28 d) | 4 (12.5) | 77 (17.3) | 119 (17.2) | 53 (13.4) | 253 (16.2) |
| Moderate (4-7 d) | 6 (18.8) | 69 (15.5) | 70 (10.1) | 34 (8.6) | 179 (11.5) |
| Minor (1-3 d) | 5 (15.6) | 102 (22.9) | 162 (23.4) | 66 (16.7) | 335 (21.4) |
| Medical attention | 13 (40.6) | 145 (32.5) | 284 (41.0) | 190 (48.1) | 632 (40.4) |
| Total | 32 (2.0) | 446 (28.5) | 692 (44.2) | 395 (25.2) | 1565 (100) |
aData are reported as count (%).