Korfball and injuries

Injuries in Korfball

In our sport, Korfball, the chance to get an injury is rather high.
Normally there are 1.9 injuries in 1000 hours of playing a sport.
In korfball there are 4.6 injuries in 1000 hours of playing korfball.

What are the causes of sport injuries?
Almost half of the presented korfball injuries (49%) occur when the player falls. In almost one third of the cases, the injury occurs through contact with an object, usually a ball.
A smaller part of the players, are injured by personal contact or acute physical (over)load.
Most injuries occur while playing a game (69%). Fewer injuries happen during training. (27%)
The top five factors that contributed to injuries (according to the injured player) are as follows:
* contact with players (36%)
* stumbling and twisting (19%)
* wrong landing (15%)
* turning (15%)
* Description (11%)

What is the nature of the injuries?
32% of injuries to the fingers
33% are  ankle injuries (usually an ankle distortion).
8% of the injured players have a knee injury or a knee distortion. An Achilles tendon rupture is rare.
Besides this: seven out of ten injuries are acute. The number of injured women and men is the same.
The average duration of an injury is 31 days.

Hospital admissions
Hospitalization and surgery are likely in the case of knee injuries like meniscus and cross tendon injury.
Hospital admissions for korfball injuries (1%) are less common than injuries that incurred by other sports (5%)

Source of this information is a publication by Dutch organisation:
"Consument en Veiligheid" Korfbalblessures Augustus 2010