Epidemiologic Analysis of Injury in Five Years of Canadian Professional Rodeo
Date
2002
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
Abstract
Longitudinal studies of rodeo injuries are rare. We
prospectively investigated injuries in professional rodeo
in Canada over a 5-year period. Our specific interests
included injury incidence density in specific
rodeo events, risk factors such as past injury, and the
incidence of head injury. Of 323 professional rodeos
from 1995 through 1999, 63 rodeos provided a convenience
sample. These rodeos were selected because
the Canadian Professional Rodeo Sport Medicine
Team was in attendance at these events, thus providing
both competitor health care and data collection.
Four hundred fifty-one injuries were reported during
30,564 competitor-exposures. The greatest injury frequency
and injury incidence density were in the rough
stock events (bull riding, bareback riding, and saddle
bronc). Bull riding accounted for the greatest injury
frequency (141) and incidence density (32.2 injuries
per 1000 competitor-exposures). Bull riding had a relative
injury risk of 1.32 when compared with bareback
riding; bareback riding had a relative injury risk of 1.39
when compared with saddle bronc riding. Concussions
accounted for 8.6% of all reported injuries. Concussions
and other head injuries (65) were second only to
knee injuries (76) in frequency of injury to specific body
parts. This concussion frequency is higher than has
previously been reported.
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Keywords
Kinesiology, Health Sciences, Sport Medicine
Citation
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE, Vol. 30, No. 2