A 6-year surveillance study of "Stingers" in NCAA American Football

作者：Green James; Zuckerman Scott L; Dalton Sara L; Djoko Aristarque; Folger Dustin; Kerr Zachary Y^*

来源：Research in Sports Medicine, 2017, 25(1): 26-36.

DOI：10.1080/15438627.2016.1258642

• Epidemiology
• injury surveillance
• stingers
• burners
• neurologic injury

This study describes the epidemiology of stinger injuries in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men's Football. About 57 NCAA Men's Football programmes provided 153 team-seasons of injury data to the NCAA Injury Surveillance Programme (NCAA-ISP) during the 2009/2010-2014/2015 academic years. In the study period, 229 stingers were reported for an injury rate of 2.04/10,000 athlete-exposures (AE). Most stingers were reported during competitions (55.5%) and the preseason (80.3%) and resulted in time loss less than 24hours (63.8%). One in five (18.8%) were recurrent. Most stingers were due to player contact (93.0%), particularly while tackling (36.7%) and blocking (25.8%) and occurred to defensive ends/linebackers (25.8%) and offensive linemen (23.6%). Although previous research reports a large prevalence of stingers among football players, the NCAA-ISP reported a relatively low injury rate. The transient nature of pain associated with stingers may have contributed to under-reporting, highlighting the need to deduce manners to increase reporting.

• 出版日期2017