Table 2 Criteria used to define injury and overuse injuries in nine studies on overuse injuries of the extremities in children and adolescents
Sports | Authors year | Criteria for injury | Criteria for classified injury as overuse | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sport-related | Complaint | Time-loss | Medical attention | Repeated microtrauma | No single, identifiable cause | Activity exceeds tissus tolerance | Gradual onset | Other | ||
Soccer | Soderman 2001 [12] | X | X | X | X | |||||
Soligard 2008 [13] | X | X | X | X | ||||||
Le Gall 2008 [14] | X | X | X | X | ||||||
Handball | Wedderkopp 1999 [17] | X | X | Classified traumatic or and overuse injury from the diagnosis: for example tendinitis being overuse injury and a sprain being an acute traumatic injury. | ||||||
Orienteering | Johansson 1986 [18] | X | X | X | ||||||
Running | Tenforde 2011 [19] | No definition at all but they called their injury “overuse injuries” | ||||||||
Dance | Leanderson 2011 [20] | X | “Traumatic injuries in case the pain result of a defined trauma. All other injuries were deemed to be caused by overuse. | |||||||
Gymnastics | Caine 2003 [15] | X | X | X | ||||||
Lindner 1990 [16] | X | X | X | X | ||||||