Epidemiology and history of knee injury and its impact on activity limitation among football premier league professional referees

Authors

  • Hamid Mahdavi Mohtasham Bone, Joint and Related Tissue Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Shahnaz Shahrbanian Department of Sport Rehabilitation, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.
  • Fatemeh Khoshroo Department of Sport Injuries & Corrective Exercises, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Tehran Uni-versity, Tehran, Iran.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v10i1.963

Keywords:

Knee injury, Soccer referees, KOS (Knee Outcome Survey), Football referees, Injury prevalence, Premier league, Injury mechanism

Abstract

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the epidemiology and history of knee injury and its impact on activity limitation among football premier league professional referees in Iran.

Methods: This was a descriptive study. 59 Football Premier League professional referees participated in the study. The knee injury related information such as injury history and mechanism, was recorded. Injury related symptoms and their impacts on the activity limitation, ability to perform activities of daily living as well participation in sports and recreational activities was obtained through the Knee Outcome Survey (KOS).

Results: The results indicated that 31 out of 59 participants reported the history of knee injury. In addition, 18.6%, 22.4% and 81% of the referees reported that they had been injured during the last 6 months of the last year, and at some point in their refereeing careers, respectively. Results further indicated that 48.8% of the injuries occurred in the non-dominant leg and they occurred more frequently during training sessions (52%). Furthermore, the value of KOS was 85 ± 13 for Activities of Daily Living subscale and 90 ± 9 for Sports and Recreational Activities subscale of the KOS.

Conclusions: Knee injury was quite common among the Football Premier League professional referees. It was also indicated that the injuries occurred mainly due to insufficient physical fitness. Therefore, it is suggested that football referees undergo the proper warm-up program to avoid knee injury.

Author Biographies

Hamid Mahdavi Mohtasham, Bone, Joint and Related Tissue Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Hamid Mahdavi Mohtasham from Kermanshah, Graduated MSc sports injuries and corrective exercises at Tehran University. He is interested in sports medicine, epidemiology, elderly population and exercise science.

Shahnaz Shahrbanian, Department of Sport Rehabilitation, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

Shahnaz Shahrbanian Graduated Rehabilitation at, McGill University. She is interested in sports medicine, epidemiology, elderly population, MS patients, Pain and exercise science.

Fatemeh Khoshroo, Department of Sport Injuries & Corrective Exercises, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Tehran Uni-versity, Tehran, Iran.

Graduated MSc sports injuries and corrective exercises at Tehran University. She is interested in sports medicine, epidemiology, and exercise science.

Downloads

Published

2018-01-22

How to Cite

Mahdavi Mohtasham, H., Shahrbanian, S., & Khoshroo, F. (2018). Epidemiology and history of knee injury and its impact on activity limitation among football premier league professional referees. Journal of Injury and Violence Research, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v10i1.963

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2018): JANUARY

Section

Original Research Article

License

Copyright.  In accordance with Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (released June 20, 2003, available from: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm), all works published in JIVR are open access and are immediately available to anyone on the website of the journal without cost. JIVR is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.