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Sports injuries are injuries that occur during sports or exercising in general. In the United States, there are approximately 30 million people who participate in some form of organized sports. [1] Of those 30 million, about 3 million athletes aged 14 and under suffer a sports related injury annually.
OSICS has been found to be more applicable to sports injury coding than the ICD. [27] Most classification of disease has a focus on conditions that present to hospital and/or cause major morbidity or death, whereas in sports medicine there is a focus on conditions (injury and illnesses) that stop an athlete from being able to compete.
Sport injuries are always the result of overuse or trauma to a part of the body. An issue unique to youth athletics is that the participants' bones are still growing, [11] making them especially at risk for injury. Around 8,000 children are rushed to the emergency room daily because of sports injuries. [38]
The Orchard Sports Injury and Illness Classification System (OSIICS), previously OSICS, is used to classify injuries to enable research into specific sports injuries. [7] [8] The injury severity score (ISS) is a medical score to assess trauma severity. [9] [10] It correlates with mortality, morbidity, and hospitalization time after trauma.
Because American football is a full-contact sport, head injuries are relatively common. According to the San Francisco Spine Institute at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, California, up to 1.5 million young men participate in football annually, and there are an estimated 1.2 million football-related injuries per year.
Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness and the treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. Although most sports teams have employed team physicians for many years, it is only since the late 20th century that sports medicine emerged as a distinct field of health care.
Athletic pubalgia, also called sports hernia, [1] core injury, [2] hockey hernia, [3] hockey groin, [1] Gilmore's groin, [1] or groin disruption, [4] is a medical condition of the pubic joint affecting athletes. [5] It is a syndrome characterized by chronic groin pain in athletes and a dilated superficial ring of the inguinal canal.
Athletic training is an allied health care profession recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA) [1] that "encompasses the prevention, examination, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of emergent, acute, or chronic injuries and medical conditions."