Is being a regular player with fewer teammates associated with musculoskeletal pain in youth team sports? A cross-sectional study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Research Article

Takafumi Abe¹  Yuji Uchio²  Masamitsu Kamada³  Jun Kitayuguchi⁴  Shinpei Okada⁵  Yoshiteru Mutoh⁶ 

[1] Center for Community-Based Health Research and Education (CoHRE), Organization for the Promotion of Project Research, Shimane University, 223-8 Enya-cho, 693-8501, Izumo, Shimane, Japan;Physical Education and Medicine Research Center UNNAN, 328 Uji, Kamo-cho, 699-1105, Unnan City, Shimane, Japan;Department of Orthopaedics, Shimane University School of Medicine, 89-1 Enya-cho, 693-8501, Izumo City, Shimane, Japan;Department of Orthopaedics, Shimane University School of Medicine, 89-1 Enya-cho, 693-8501, Izumo City, Shimane, Japan;Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, 4th floor, 02215, Boston, MA, USA;Department of Health Promotion and Exercise, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, 1-23-1 Toyama, 162-8636, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan;Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 5-3-1, Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, 102-0083, Tokyo, Japan;Physical Education and Medicine Research Center UNNAN, 328 Uji, Kamo-cho, 699-1105, Unnan City, Shimane, Japan;Physical Education and Medicine Research Foundation, 6-1 Nunoshita, 389-0402, Tomi City, Nagano, Japan;Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Tokyo Medical University, 6-1-1, Shinjuku, 160-8402, Tokyo, Shinjuku-ku, Japan;The Research Institute of Nippon Sport Science University, 7-1-1 Fukasawa, 158-0081, Tokyo, Setagaya-ku, Japan;

关键词: Sports;    Social environment;    Musculoskeletal disease;    Substitute;    Adolescent;    Epidemiology;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12891-017-1470-z

 received in 2016-11-10, accepted in 2017-03-03,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMusculoskeletal pain (MSP) is a commonly reported symptom in youth sports players. Some sports-related risk factors have been reported, but previous studies on extrinsic risk factors did not focus on management of team members (e.g., regular or non-regular players, number of players) for reducing sports-related MSP. This study aimed to examine the association of playing status (regular or non-regular players) and team status (fewer or more teammates) with MSP in youth team sports.MethodsA total of 632 team sports players (age: 12–18 years) in public schools in Unnan, Japan completed a self-administered questionnaire to determine MSP (overall, upper limbs, lower back, and lower limbs) and playing status (regular or non-regular players). Team status was calculated as follows: teammate quantity index (TQI) = [number of teammates in their grade]/[required number of players for the sport]. Associations between the prevalence of pain and joint categories of playing and team status were examined by multivariable-adjusted Poisson regression.ResultsA total of 272 (44.3%) participants had MSP at least several times a week in at least one part of the body. When divided by playing or team status, 140 (47.0%) regular and 130 (41.7%) non-regular players had MSP, whereas 142 (47.0%) players with fewer teammates (lower TQI) and 127 (41.8%) players with more teammates (higher TQI) had MSP. When analyzed jointly, regular players with fewer teammates had a higher prevalence of lower back pain compared with non-regular players with more teammates (21.3% vs 8.3%; prevalence ratio = 2.08 [95% confidence interval 1.07–4.02]). The prevalence of MSP was highest in regular players with fewer teammates for all other pain outcomes, but this was not significant.ConclusionRegular players with fewer teammates have a higher risk of lower back pain. Future longitudinal investigations are required.

【 授权许可】

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