Abstract
BackgroundTo identify injury patterns and mechanisms in professional men’s basketball by means of video match analysis.MethodsIn Germany, injuries are registered with the statutory accident insurance for professional athletes (VBG) by clubs or club physicians as part of occupational accident reporting. Moderate and severe injuries (absence of > 7 days) sustained during basketball competition in one of four seasons (2014–2017 and 2018–2019) in the first or second national men’s league in Germany were prospectively analyzed using a newly developed standardized observation form. Season 2017–2018 was excluded because of missing video material.ResultsVideo analysis included 175 (53%) of 329 moderate and severe match injuries. Contact patterns categorized according to the different body sites yielded eight groups of typical injury patterns: one each for the head, shoulders, and ankles, two for the thighs, and three for the knees. Injuries to the head (92%), ankles (76%), shoulders (70%), knees (47%), and thighs (32%) were mainly caused by direct contact. The injury proportion of foul play was 19%. Most injuries (61%) occurred in the central zone below the basket. More injuries occurred during the second (OR 1.8, p = 0.018) and fourth quarter (OR 1.8, p = 0.022) than during the first and third quarter of the match.ConclusionThe eight identified injury patterns differed substantially in their mechanisms. Moderate and severe match injuries to the head, shoulders, knees, and ankles were mainly caused by collision with opponents and teammates. Thus, stricter rule enforcement is unlikely to facilitate safer match play.
Highlights
To identify injury patterns and mechanisms in professional men’s basketball by means of video match analysis
Our findings extend findings from other team ball sports regarding a major number of contact mechanisms in moderate and severe head injuries [5, 6, 17,18,19]
We identified a highly repetitive mechanism of moderate and severe injuries resulting from direct contact, mainly foot-to-foot collision with the foot of an opponent or a teammate after landing from a rebound or a jump shot: 45 out of 59 analyzed ankle injuries matched this pattern
Summary
To identify injury patterns and mechanisms in professional men’s basketball by means of video match analysis. Basketball is associated with a high risk of injury, in professional league settings [1]. Injury prevention requires the precise analysis of situations resulting in injury to understand the mechanisms and causes of acute injuries [2,3,4]. Full understanding of injury mechanisms is only possible in a sports-specific context. Little is known about the match situations and the behavior of. The situations leading to injury in basketball and the mechanisms resulting in the different types of injury are not well documented. The purpose of this explorative study was to identify patterns of situations and mechanisms
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