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      Tennis injury data from The Championships, Wimbledon, from 2003 to 2012

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          Objective

          The primary aims of this retrospective study were to describe the burden of injury presenting to the medical team and the changes in injury profile over 10 years (2003–2012) at The Championships, Wimbledon. Secondary aims included description of gender difference in rates, distribution and pathology of injuries.

          Design

          Retrospective observational cohort of player injury presentations over 10 years (2003–2012) at The Championships, Wimbledon.

          Results

          The overall rate of presentation of injury for all players over the 10-year period was 20.7 per 1000 sets played. Injury rates were lower for male players (17.7 injuries per 1000 sets played) than female players (23.4 injuries per 1000 sets played). There was variability in the numbers of injuries reported by men and women players over the 10-year period.

          Conclusions

          The rates of presentation of injury at this Grand Slam tennis tournament varied between male and female players, and between years. More robust systems of data collection are required in professional tennis to enable more sophisticated injury data analysis between sexes, years and different playing surfaces.

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          Tennis injuries: occurrence, aetiology, and prevention.

          B Pluim, J. Staal, G E Windler … (2006)
          A systematic search of published reports was carried out in three electronic databases from 1966 on to identify relevant articles relating to tennis injuries. There were 39 case reports, 49 laboratory studies, 28 descriptive epidemiological studies, and three analytical epidemiological studies. The principal findings of the review were: first, there is a great variation in the reported incidence of tennis injuries; second, most injuries occur in the lower extremities, followed by the upper extremities and then the trunk; third, there have been very few longitudinal cohort studies that investigated the association between risk factors and the occurrence of tennis injuries (odds ratios, risk ratios, hazard ratios); and fourth, there were no randomised controlled trials investigating injury prevention measures in tennis. More methodologically sound studies are needed for a better understanding of risk factors, in order to design useful strategies to prevent tennis injuries.
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            Epidemiology of musculoskeletal injury in the tennis player.

            G Abrams, Marc R Safran, P A Renström (2012)
            Tennis is a popular sport with tens of millions of players participating worldwide. This popularity was one factor leading to the reappearance of tennis as a medal sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The volume of play, combined with the physical demands of the sports, can lead to injuries of the musculoskeletal system. Overall, injury incidence and prevalence in tennis has been reported in a number of investigations. The sport creates specific demands on the musculoskeletal system, with acute injuries, such as ankle sprains, being more frequent in the lower extremity while chronic overuse injuries, such as lateral epicondylitis, are more common in the upper extremity in the recreational player and shoulder pain more common in the high-level player. This review discusses the epidemiology of injuries frequently experienced in tennis players and examines some of these injuries' correlation with the development of osteoarthritis. In addition, player-specific factors, such as age, sex, volume of play, skill level, racquet properties and grip positions as well as the effect of playing surface on the incidence and prevalence of injury is reported. Finally, recommendations on standardisation of future epidemiological studies on tennis injuries are made in order to be able to more easily compare results of future investigations.
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              Consensus statement on epidemiological studies of medical conditions in tennis, April 2009.

              B Montalvan, Kathleen A Stroia, Daniel Chase … (2009)
              The reported incidence, severity and nature of injuries sustained in tennis vary considerably between studies. While some of these variations can be explained by differences in sample populations and conditions, the main reasons are related to differences in definitions and methodologies employed in the studies. This statement aims to review existing consensus statements for injury surveillance in other sports in order to establish definitions, methods and reporting procedures that are applicable to the specific requirements of tennis. The International Tennis Federation facilitated a meeting of 11 experts from seven countries representing a range of tennis stakeholders. Using a mixed methods consensus approach, key issues related to definitions, methodology and implementation were discussed and voted on by the group during a structured 1-day meeting. Following this meeting, two members of the group collaborated to produce a draft statement, based on the group discussions and voting outcomes. Three revisions were prepared and circulated for comment before the final consensus statement was produced. A definition of medical conditions (injuries and illnesses) that should be recorded in tennis epidemiological studies and criteria for recording the severity and nature of these conditions are proposed. Suggestions are made for recording players' baseline information together with recommendations on how medical conditions sustained during match play and training should be reported. The definitions and methodology proposed for recording injuries and illnesses sustained during tennis activities will lead to more consistent and comparable data being collected. The surveillance procedures presented here may also be applicable to other racket sports.
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Br J Sports Med
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Br J Sports Med
                Journal ID (hwp): bjsports
                Journal ID (publisher-id): bjsm
                Title: British Journal of Sports Medicine
                Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group (BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR )
                ISSN (Print): 0306-3674
                ISSN (Electronic): 1473-0480
                Publication date (Print): April 2017
                Publication date (Electronic): 13 March 2017
                Volume: 51
                Issue: 7
                Pages: 607-611
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) Headley Court , Epsom, Surrey, UK
                [2 ]All England Lawn Tennis Club , London, UK
                [3 ]Queens Medical Centre , Nottingham, UK
                [4 ]The Paddocks Clinic , Princes Risborough, UK
                [5 ]Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust , Nottingham, UK
                [6 ]Arthritis Research UK Centre Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis , Nottingham, UK
                Author notes
                [Correspondence to ] I McCurdie, Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) Headley Court, Epsom, Surrey KT18 6JW, UK; ianmccurdie@ 123456btinternet.com
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                Publisher ID: bjsports-2015-095552
                DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2015-095552
                PMC ID: 5384430
                PubMed ID: 26755678
                SO-VID: 0df797a2-c9dd-456b-8c38-de320285b724
                Copyright © Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/
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                This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Date accepted : 6 November 2015
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                Keywords: injury,cohort study,retrospective,tennis
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