Table 2: Brief overview injury characteristics, injury prevalence/incidence.

Study

Study sample

Injured participants

Injuries

Prevalence

Shoulder

Lower back

Hand/wrist

Knee

 

 

 

 

 

n

P

%

n

P

%

n

P

%

n

P

%

Escalante, et al. [16]

159

75

127

46.5

42

26.4

33.1

23

14.4

18.1

14

8.8

10.2

16

10.1

12.5

Hak, et al. [18]

132

97

184

73.5

48

36.4

25.8

37 (spine)

28.0

19.9

19

14.4

10.2

18

13.6

9.7

Summitt, et al. [22]

187

44

46

23.5

46

24.6

100

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minghelli, et al. [20]

270

61

80

22.6

28

10.4

35.0

24

5.2

17.5

8

3.0

10.0

9

3.3

11.3

Montalvo, et al. [21]

191

50

62

26.2

14

7.3

22.6

8

4.2

12.9

11

5.8

17.7

10

5.2

16.1

Alekseyev, et al [40]

885

295

295

33.3

61

6.9

20.7

95

10.7

32.2

24 (hand)

2.7

8.1

30

3.4

10.2

da Costa, et al. [15]

414

157

 

37.9

 

 

30.8

 

 

30.1

 

 

25.6

 

 

13.5

Weisenthal, et al. [43]

386

75

84

19.4

21

5.4

25.0

12

3.1

14.3

5

1.3

6.0

11

2.8

13.1

Feito, et al. [17]

3,049

931

 

30.5

 

 

39.0

 

 

36.0 (back)

 

 

11.0 (wrist)

 

 

15.0

Mehrab, et al. [45]

449

252

303

56.1

87

19.4

28.7

48

10.7

15.8

12 (wrist)

2.7

4.0

25

5.6

8.3

Lima, et al. [44]

413

99

99

24.0

31

7.5

31.3

33

8.0

33.3

9 (hand/wrist/finger)

2.2

9.1

14

2.4

14.1

INCIDENCE

Study

Study sample

Injured participants

Injuries

Incidence

Shoulder

Lower back

Hand/wrist

Knee

 

 

 

 

 

n

I

%

n

I

%

n

I

%

n

I

%

Chachula, et al. [41]

54

24

40

44.4

9

16.7

22.5

11

20.4

27.5

4 (wrist)

7.4

10.0

5

9.3

12.5

Moran, et al. [24]

117

 

15

12.8

1

0.9

6.7

5

4.3

33.3

2

1.7

13.3

3

2.6

20.0

Szeles, et al. [13]

406

133

247

32.8

47

11.6

19.0

37

9.1

15.0

19

4.7

7.7

29

7.1

11.7

Larsen, et al. [23]

168

25

28

14.9

2

1.2

7.1

7

4.1

25.0

 

 

 

6

3.6

21.4

Cheng, et al. [12]

244

112

437

46.0

90

36.9

20.6

99 (back)

40.6

22.7

84

37.5

19.2

35

14.3

8.0

Tawfik, et al. [42]

270

168

 

66.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

55

20.4

32.7

 

 

 

Paiva, et al. [58]

121

43

64

35.5

26 (shoulder/elbow)

21.5

40.6

13

10.7

20.3

7

5.8

10.9

3

2.5

4.7

Total number

7915

2716

2111

 

553

 

 

452

 

 

237

 

 

214

 

 

n: number; IP: injury prevalence; II: Injury incidence; % percentage of total amount of injuries