2020 Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 83-91
This study aimed at clarifying the present status and problems of studies on sports injury surveillance studies in Japanese schools. We performed a literature search using databases (CiNii Articles and Google Scholar) and extracted 69 papers involving studies that investigated sports trauma and overuse injuries in schools for the period from 1980 to 2016. Most of extracted studies targeted contact sports and university students. Those reporting only females were limited. In addition, the injury definition and the methods for classifying the body part are varied. There were also aspects of examination and integration difficulties. We found that the problems such as bias in the types and ages of the study subjects and the inconsistencies in the study methods on trauma and overuse injuries.
