Blog #15: Basic Knee Injury Statistics by Chris Schattinger, MS, CSCS, CISSN
Today we begin our next series of blogs in relation to the incidence of knee injury. Before honing in on specific knee injuries lets first discuss knee injuries in general. If you haven’t guess it already sports are the greatest cause of knee injury with an estimated 2.5 million sports related knee injuries per year.
For more clarity on demographics let’s look at a study by Gage et al. (2012) that extracted data from 6 million documented knee injuries. 80% of male knee injuries occurred in those ages 5-44 while 65% of female knee injuries occurred in those ages 15-64. Not surprisingly, 62% of those injuries in males occurred from sports however it is interesting to note that 40% (the majority) of injuries in women occurred from “home structures” not sports.
Men age 5-24 experienced the highest percentage of knee injuries playing football and basketball while those 25-44 experienced the highest percentage from stairs, steps and landings. All women 15-64 experienced the highest percentage of knee injuries from stairs, steps or landings. More men participate in sports than women therefore these findings would be expected.
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Gage, B. E., McIlvain, N. M., Collins, C. L., Fields, S. K., & Dawn Comstock, R. (2012). Epidemiology of 6.6 million knee injuries presenting to United States emergency departments from 1999 through 2008. Academic emergency medicine, 19(4), 378-385.