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The questionnaire related to forensic aspects included the education level, awareness of sports
law, tendency of fighting in private life and opinion of the athletes on risky sports (Table 3).
Results
None of the interviewees had witnessed a death case of any taekwondo athlete. However,
experienced serious trauma rates were considerably high in the lower extremities (49.88%),
orofacial region (31.11%), and upper extremities (9.99%), respectively (Table 4, 5) This
time–loss injuries were 25.5 % among all competitors and 42.6% among all injuries.
All of the athletes were using some compulsory protectors like head protectors, groin guard,
trunk protector, forearm and wrist protectors. 83 (92.22%) of the athletes were aware of the
mouthguards and only 10 (11.1%) of them used these devices actually. Athletes’ knowledge
about sports law was limited and 66.7% of them had a tendency to street fights (Table 6).
The most frequently injured body part was lower leg knee, ankle, hand upper leg, the foot,
and elbow.
Discussion
There are several studies reporting the injury rates of the body parts of taekwondo athletes 17-
20,24,31 Compared with similar data available for seven men's sports (wrestling, American
football, football (soccer), ice hockey, gymnastics, lacrosse and baseball) and six women's
sports (gymnastics, football (soccer), field hockey, lacrosse, softball and volleyball), the
taekwondo competition injury rate ranked third in men's sports behind wrestling (31.75/1,000
A-E) and American football (30.97/1,000 A-E). For women, taekwondo also ranked third
behind gymnastics (18.09/1,000 A-E) and football (soccer) (15.31/1,000 A-E). 31 It has been
estimated that players of contact sports have a 10% chance per playing season of sustaining an
injury and up to a 50% chance of injury in their playing career. 3,9 However, the dental trauma
incidence was not investigated comprehensively. Furthermore no report about the injuries of