Table 2.
Injury region of injuries in climbing, whereas “n.r.” means not reported, “m:f” means male:female
| Author | Investi-gation period | m:f (%) mean age |
Number of injuries | Number of injured riders | Amateurs/elites | Type of injury | Injury location | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper extremity | Lower extremity | Trunk & Spine | Head & Neck | |||||||||||
| Shoulder | Hand/finger | Upper/lower arm | Hip/thigh | Knee/calf | Foot/ankle | |||||||||
| Logan et al. [42] | n.r |
91:09 50 |
n.r | 545 | Amateurs and elites | Hand and finger injuries | n.r | 28% | n.r | n.r | n.r | n.r | n.r | n.r |
| Wyatt et al. [44] | 1992–1993 |
79:21 29 |
19 | n.r | n.r | all | n.r | 21% | n.r | 0% | 26% | 37% | 16% | n.r |
| Mashkovskiy et al. [56] | 2014 |
n.r. n.r |
21 | n.r | Amateurs | All | n.r | n.r | 5% | 33% | 14% | n.r | 5% | 43% |
| Schöffl et al. [8] | 2009—2012 |
n.r. 34.1 |
911 | n.r | Amateurs and elites | All | 17.2% | 65.1% | 9.1% | 0.4% | 2.1% | 3.8% | 1.9% | n.r |
| Lack et al. [45] | 1998 -2011 |
78:22 n.r |
n.r | 242 | Amateurs and elites | All | 2% | 2.5% | 29.5% | 16.5% | 17% | |||
| Schöffl et al. [8] | 2005 |
90:10 n.r |
4 | n.r | Elites | All | n.r | n.r | n.r | n.r | 50% | 25% | 25% | n.r |
| Rugg et al. [37] | 2005–2018 |
79:21 n.r |
1503 | 1450 | Amateurs | All | 8.7% | 9.4% | 2.2% | 4.5% | 10.9% | 27.1% | 0.4% | 21.2% |
| Bowie et al. [57] | 1984–1987 |
88:12 n.r |
451 | 220 | Amateurs | All | 2% | 12% | 2% | 10% | 12% | 54% | 4% | 4% |
| Lum et al. [55] | 2017–2018 |
83:17 27.4 |
432 | 237 | Amateurs | All | 17.3% | 41.9% | 2.8% | 7.4% | 19.9% | 3.7% | n.r | |
| Lutter et al. [48] | 2017–2018 |
69:31 30.8 |
633 | 436 | Amateurs | All | 18.2% | 48.7% | 10% | 1.7% | 8.2% | 8.6% | 2.8% | 0.7% |
| Identeg et al. [54] | 2008–2019 |
79:21 n.r |
38 | 38 | Amateurs | All | 5% | 5% | 3% | 66% | 13% | 3% | ||