Burden of Sport Injuries in the European Union - Safety in Sports
Burden of Sport Injuries in the European Union - Safety in Sports
Burden of Sport Injuries in the European Union - Safety in Sports
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
62<br />
10 | February 2012<br />
The estimation <strong>of</strong> direct health costs by apply<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> EUROCOST methodology as<br />
described above, leads to table 28. As <strong>the</strong> average number <strong>of</strong> days <strong>of</strong> hospital care do<br />
not differ extremely between team ball-sports, <strong>the</strong> distribution <strong>of</strong> costs depend ma<strong>in</strong>ly<br />
on <strong>the</strong> frequency <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>juries.<br />
Type <strong>of</strong> sport Days ED Total<br />
Soccer 127.256.426 161.574.236 288.830.662 70%<br />
Basketball 9.575.161 17.884.000 27.459.160 7%<br />
Handball 4.592.688 14.343.170 18.935.858 5%<br />
Volleyball 17.964.018 14.185.800 32.149.818 8%<br />
American Football 6.863.611 6.463.419 13.327.030 3%<br />
Field Hockey 9.761.580 19.946.673 29.708.253 7%<br />
Total 176.013.482 234.397.298 410.410.780 100%<br />
<strong>of</strong> all sports<br />
25%<br />
Table/figure 28: The medical cost <strong>of</strong> high risk team sports <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>European</strong> <strong>Union</strong><br />
(EU27)<br />
10.2 Team-ball-sport and gender<br />
There are slight but quite consistent differences <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>jury patterns among men and<br />
women. Generally <strong>in</strong> all team ball sports, women tend toward more contusions and<br />
bruises as well as distortions and spra<strong>in</strong>s, while o<strong>the</strong>r types <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>juries as muscle <strong>in</strong>juries,<br />
dislocations and open wounds are less frequent (table/figure 29-34).