Injury Surveillance in Major League Soccer: A 4-Year Comparison of Injury on Natural Grass Versus Artificial Turf Field
Calloway SP, Hardin DM, Crawford MD, Hardin JM, Lemak LJ, Giza E, Forsythe B, Lu Y, Patel BH, Osbahr DC, Gerhardt MB, Mandelbaum BR, Baldwin WW
The American journal of sports medicine · 17 citas
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- Diseño
- Estudio de cohortes (indexado por PubMed)
- Estudiado en
- Personas
- Resultado principal
- Eventos clínicos como enfermedad o muerte
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Publicación
- Publicado
- 2019-07-15 · Am J Sports Med · vol. 47 · número 10 · págs. 2279–2286
- Editorial
- SAGE Publishing
- Citado
- 35 citas · más que el 90% de estudios similares · 3.0× el promedio de su campo
- Impacto
- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
- Referencias
- 42 trabajos
- Acceso
- De pago
- Áreas de investigación
- Sports injuries and prevention · Tendon Structure and Treatment · Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
- Palabras clave
- League, Injury surveillance, Aeronautics, Engineering, Poison control, Injury prevention, Medicine, Medical emergency
- MeSH
- achilles tendon, humans, poaceae, athletic injuries, ankle injuries, knee injuries, incidence, cohort studies, soccer, united states, athletes
13 autores
- Sean P. Calloway🇺🇸 · autor de correspondenciaCedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- David Hardin🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- Matthew D. Crawford🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- J. Michael Hardin🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- Lawrence J. Lemak🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- Eric Giza🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- Brian Forsythe🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- Yining Lu🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- Bhavik H. Patel🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- Daryl Christopher Osbahr🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- Michael B. Gerhardt🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- Bert R. Mandelbaum🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
- William W. Baldwin🇺🇸Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
Resumen
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Background
Artificial playing surfaces are becoming more common due to decreased cost of maintenance and increased field usability across different environmental conditions. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has approved newer generation artificial turf for soccer competition at the elite level, but many elite-level athletes prefer to play on natural grass surfaces due to a perceived increase in injury rate, discomfort, and fatigability on artificial turf.
Hypothesis
Injury rates and rates of individually categorized types of injury experienced on artificial turf are noninferior to rates of injury on the standard comparator, natural grass, in elite-level Major League Soccer athletes.
Study design
Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2.
Methods
Over the course of 4 Major League Soccer seasons (2013-2016), athlete injury data were recorded electronically. Injury data recorded in matches between 2 Major League Soccer teams were then analyzed. Playing surface was known for each venue, and all artificial turf surfaces were rated as 2-star according to FIFA criteria. Incidence rate ratios (Artificial Turf ÷ Natural Grass) were calculated with a 95% CI (α = .05) for both overall injury incidence and individual injury subgroups. A noninferiority margin (δ) of 0.15 was used to determine noninferiority of injury incidence rates.
Results
A total of 2174 in-game injuries were recorded during the study period, with 1.54 injuries per game on artificial turf and 1.49 injuries per game on natural grass (incidence rate ratio, 1.033; 95% CI, 0.937-1.139). Within injury subgroups, overall ankle injury, Achilles injury, and ankle fracture were found to have a statistically higher incidence on artificial turf. Artificial turf was found to be noninferior to natural grass for overall foot injury and forefoot injury. No statistically significant differences were found in knee injuries between the 2 surfaces.
Conclusion
The overall rate of injury on artificial turf was noninferior to that on natural grass. Within individual injury categories, a higher rate of ankle injury was found on artificial turf. No other injury subgroup demonstrated statistically significant differences between surfaces.
Clinical relevance
FIFA 2-star rated artificial turf is a viable alternative to natural grass in elite-level soccer competition. Innovative research methods for comparing artificial turf versus natural grass may elucidate relative advantages with respect to player safety.
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