2017 Volume 77 Issue 1 Pages 40-47
The purpose of this study was to conduct a survey on sports injuries in a medical university in order to develop an education program in order to prevent such injuries. Subjects were 575 freshmen in the university and 1,440 athletes from 2nd year to 6th year in the university. The students answered our questionnaire on sports injuries, and response rates were 99.7％ of the freshmen and 35.4％ of the athletes. Sports injuries occurred in 12.4％ of the freshmen and in 19.8％ of the athletes, and the prevalence of sports injuries in the freshmen and the athletes was 19.4％ and 40.8％, respectively. When the injuries were classified by body region, finger and wrist accounted for the highest percentage （22.5％） in the freshmen, and knee joint accounted for the highest percentage （18.3％） in the athletes. With regard to association between the sports injuries and a workout session, the students with injuries had a longer workout session compared to the students without injuries （P＜0.01）. Considering the time of the sports injuries, 8.0％ of the freshmen answered “perform RICE” and 10.8％ of them answered “do nothing”. In contrast, 12.8％ of the athletes answered to “perform RICE” and 7.1％ of them answered to “do nothing”. With regard to effort for injury prevention, 50.6％ of the freshmen answered “do nothing”, and 20.0％ of the athletes answered “do nothing”. It was suggested that the awareness for injury prevention in the freshmen was lower. The results of this study indicate that we need to educate all students on the procedures and prevention of sports injuries.
