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Living with artificial grass: A knowledge update

Part 2: Epidemiology

Hospital for Joint Diseases/Orthopaedic Institute, New York, New York

I. Martin Levy

Sports Medicine Service, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Division of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

Julie Agel

Sports Medicine Service, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Division of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

Part 2 of our study evaluated the effect of artificial grass on the athletes that play on it. In this section we have reviewed the epidemiological studies that have evalu ated the influence that artificial grass has on the fre quency and site of injury to American football players. From this review we have concluded that play and practice on an artificial surface is probably responsible for an increase in the relative risk of injury to the lower extremity of the participants. However, it is evident that more well controlled studies are necessary to com pletely clarify this issue.

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