A new study examines what types of injuries and how age might relate to whether pickleball players end up in the emergency room.
The most common types of pickleball-related injuries are fractures, sprains, and internal organ injuries.There are roughly 8.9 million pickleball players out there today. But how many of them get sent to the emergency room? And in what ways could this actually happen?, examined data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System , which collects data from a sample of 100 U.S. emergency departments. The authors looked at the most recent year of data and searched for “pickleball” .
The most common diagnosis was for fractures at 30%, followed by sprains at 17% and internal organ injury . There were 29% of cases that did not state the diagnosis for the injury. As far as body region most impacted, the upper trunk was the most common location followed by lower trunk and then head . One of five injury cases was treated and admitted for hospitalization. Most of the hospital admissions were for cardiac arrest, with the other 25% admitted for fractures.
Source: Jones and Hammig / Department of Health, Human Performance, and Recreation, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville The majority of older people end up in the emergency room due to cardiac arrest, “syncope” , falling or tripping, or activity and overuse. However, roughly equal numbers of younger and older people were “hit by object,” and all reported heat exhaustion cases were from younger people., is Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Psychology and the 21st Century Endowed Chair in Education Policy at the University of Arkansas.
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