Research Article

Injuries in Physical Education Teacher Students: Differences between Sex, Curriculum Year, Setting, and Sports

Table 2

Prevalence of injury locations and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for intracurricular and extracurricular injuries and for injuries sustained in multiple settings. For 35 injuries, no exact body location was registered. For 69 injuries, the setting was unknown.

Body locationsIntracurricularExtracurricularMultiple settingsTotal
n%95% CI (%)n%95% CI (%)n%95% CI (%)n%

Shoulder/claviculaMale7053.845.3–62.44333.125.0–41.275.41.5–9.3130100
Female5059.549.0–70.01619.010.7–27.467.11.6–12.784100
Total12056.149.4–62.75927.621.6–33.6136.12.9–9.3214100

Back/pelvis/sacrumMale3143.732.1–55.21926.854.4–81.91115.57.1–23.971100
Female6468.158.7–77.51313.86.9–20.81313.86.9–20.894100
Total9557.650.0–65.13219.413.4–25.42414.59.2–19.9165100

ThighMale2950.037.1–62.92136.223.8–48.658.6%1.4–15.858100
Female4171.960.3–83.61221.110.5–31.600.0––57100
Total7060.951.9–69.83328.720.4–37.054.30.6–8.1115100

KneeMale7634.528.3–40.810748.642.0–55.2198.64.9–12.3220100
Female10553.346.3–60.36332.025.5–38.5199.65.5–13.8197100
Total18143.438.6–48.217040.836.1–45.5389.16.4–11.9417100

Lower legMale7966.958.5–75.41916.19.5–22.71512.76.7–18.7118100
Female8574.666.6–82.687.02.3–11.71815.89.1–22.5114100
Total16470.764.8–76.52711.67.5–15.83314.29.7–18.7232100

AnkleMale13149.643.6–55.711443.237.2–49.251.90.2–3.5264100
Female13767.861.4–74.34622.817.0–28.691.91.6–7.3202100
Total26857.553.0–62.016034.330.0–38.6143.01.5–4.6466100

Foot/toesMale3254.241.5–66.91830.518.8–42.323.40.0–8.059100
Female3068.254.4–81.9920.58.5–32.436.80.0–14.344100
Total6260.250.7–69.62726.217.7–34.754.90.7–9.0103100

OtherMale10351.244.3–58.26331.324.9–37.8105.02.0–8.0201100
Female12268.261.3–75.02815.610.3–21.0126.73.0–10.4179100
Total22559.261.3–75.09123.919.7–28.2225.83.4–8.1380100

TotalMale55148.245.4–51.14053532.7–38.2766.75.2–8.11142100
Female63864.661.7–67.619519.817.3–22.2808.16.4–9.8987100
Total118955.853.7–58.060028.226.3–30.11567.36.2–8.42129100