Turf Talk: Injury Rates, Mechanisms, and Prevention in Adolescent Field Hockey

This MSc thesis contains three projects focused on Canadian adolescent field hockey players. Project A: Game Video Analysis Objective: To describe physical contact (PC) incidence rates (IR), PC types, PC intensity, and suspected injury (SI) IRs in female adolescent high school (HS) and club field hockey (FH). Methods: Video analysis of HS and club FH games. Results: The PC IRs for HS were similar to club (IRR=1.16; 95% CI:0.90-1.48). HS had a 3.1-fold higher SI IR than club (IRR=3.10, 95% CI:1.41-6.76). The leading SI mechanism was ball-to-player contact (HS 71.43%; club 61.54%) and most frequent SI location was the lower extremity (HS 37.74%; club 53.85%). Project B: Injury Epidemiology Objective: To describe IRs, types, locations, severity, and mechanisms and explore associations between potential risk factors and IRs in HS and female and male club FH. Methods: Prospective injury surveillance. Results: Overall injury IRs (/1000 player-hours) were 6.28 injuries (95% CI: 4.38-9.05) in female HS, 2.93 injuries (95% CI: 1.50-5.71) in female club, and 15.00 (95% CI: 7.15-31.46) in male club. The most common injury location and type was the lower extremity (58.54%) and contusions (41.46%). There was a significant association between sex, weight, height, BMI, and injury in exploratory univariable risk factor analyses. Project C: Pilot Neuromuscular Training Objective: To evaluate the feasibility, adherence, and pilot efficacy of a coach-delivered NMT warm-up program in female and male club FH. Methods: NMT coach workshop delivery and prospective injury surveillance. Results: Warm-up adherence was 66.67% in the female team and 44.44% in the male team. There was no significant difference in IRs (IRR=0.60, 95% CI: 0.13-2.91) between control teams and NMT intervention teams. Conclusion: These projects increase knowledge regarding the injury profile of Canadian adolescent FH players and may help inform future injury prevention strategies. Keywords: Field hockey, adolescent, video analysis, injury, neuromuscular training, injury prevention

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MSc)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Kinesiology

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Graduate Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Madrid, Alana

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Emery, Carolyn
• West, Stephen

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Pasanen, Kati
• Verhagen, Evert
• Delahunt, Eamonn

• field hockey
• adolescent
• video-analysis
• injury
• neuromuscular training
• injury prevention

Statement dc:rights

• University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.

Language dc:language.iso

en

DOI

https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/46718

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ucalgary.scholaris.ca:1880/119122