Table 3.
Injury region of injuries in airborne sports, 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 sports | Injury location | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper extremity | Lower extremity | Trunk & Spine (%) | Head & Neck (%) | |||||||||||
| Shoulder (%) | Hand/finger (%) | Upper/lower arm (%) | Hip/thigh (%) | Knee/calf (%) | Foot/ankle (%) | |||||||||
| Feletti et al. [66] | 1995—2012 |
n.r. 44.5 |
256 | n.r | Amateurs and elites |
Parag Gliding |
12.5 | 15.6 | 16.4 | 8.2 | 14.1 | 12.9 | 13.3 | 7 |
| Feletti et al. [65] | 2000—2014 |
88:12 n.r |
1411 | n.r | Amateurs and elites |
Para Gliding |
5.3 | 6.6 | 9.3 | 5.5 | 13.4 | 12.4 | 24.5 | 8.4 |
| Cevik et al. [11] | n.r |
75:25 n.r |
17 | 20 | Amateurs and elites |
Para Gliding |
17.6 | 35.3 | 17.6 | 11.8 | ||||
| Fasching et al. [63] | 1987—1991 |
92:8 33 |
n.r | 70 | Amateurs and elites |
Para Gliding |
12.8 | 32.5 | 39.3 | 15.4 | ||||
| Mei-Dan et al. [9] | 2006—2010 |
87:13 31 |
44 | n.r | Amateurs | Base jumping | 0 | 54.5 | 34.1 | 11.4 | ||||
| Hasler et al. 2012 [59, 73] | 2000–2009 |
91:9 n.r |
11 | 11 | Amateurs | Base jumping | 54.5 | 9 | 9 | |||||
| Monasterio et al. [10] | n.r |
97:3 34 |
48 | n.r | Amateurs | Base jumping | 14.6 | 58.3 | 25 | 2.1 | ||||
| Westman et al. [81] | 1999–2003 |
70:30 n.r |
311 | 257 | Amateurs and elites | Skydiving | 6.1 | 8.7 | 4.2 | 7.1 | 23.2 | 15.1 | 20.3 | 7.1 |