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- Title
Acute and Overuse, Time-Loss and Non-Time-Loss Lateral Ankle Sprains and Health Care Utilization in Collegiate Student-Athletes.
- Authors
Brown, Cathleen N.; Bovbjerg, Viktor E.; Soucy, Michael T.; Choe, SeokJae; Fredericson, Michael; Simon, Janet E.
- Abstract
Context: Health care utilization and the occurrence of non-time-loss (NTL) lateral ankle sprains is not well documented in collegiate athletes but could provide better estimates of injury burden and inform clinician workload. Design: Descriptive epidemiologic study. Methods: Lateral ankle sprain injury occurrence for Division I collegiate student-athletes in a conference with 32 sports representing 732 team seasons was collected during the 2018–2019 through 2020–2021 academic years. Injuries were designated as acute or overuse, and time-loss (TL) or NTL. Associated health care utilization, including athletic training services (AT services), and physician encounters were reported along with anatomical structures involved and season of occurrence. Results: A total of 1242 lateral ankle sprains were reported over the 3 years from 732 team seasons and 17,431 player seasons, resulting in 12,728 AT services and 370 physician encounters. Most lateral ankle sprains were acute-TL (59.7%), which were associated with the majority of AT services (74.1%) and physician encounters (70.0%). Acute-NTL sprains represented 37.8% of lateral ankle sprains and were associated with 22.3% of AT services and 27.0% of physician encounters. On average, there were 12.7 (5.8) AT services per acute-TL sprain and 6.0 (3.6) per acute-NTL sprain. Most sprains involved "ankle lateral ligaments" (45.6%), and very few were attributed to overuse mechanisms (2.4%). Conclusions: Lateral ligament sprains are a common injury across many sports and result in substantial health care utilization from ATs and physicians, including NTL lateral ankle sprains. Although TL injuries were the majority of sprains, a substantial proportion of sprains were NTL and accounted for a considerable proportion of health care utilization.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LIGAMENT injuries; COLLEGE students; SOCCER; RESEARCH methodology; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; SPRAINS; PHYSICAL training &; conditioning; ANKLE; ANKLE injuries; MEDICAL care use; BASKETBALL; MANIPULATION therapy; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; DELTOID muscles; GYMNASTICS; FOOTBALL; OVERUSE injuries; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research; EXERCISE therapy
- Publication
Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 2, p133
- ISSN
1056-6716
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/jsr.2022-0121