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Injuries in Short Track Speed Skating

Andrew Quinn, MD^,, Victor Lun, MSc, MD, John McCall, MBChB, MSc(Bio-Eng) Dip Sport Med and Tom Overend, PhD, BScPT^||

Sport Medicine Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Collingwood General and Marine Hospital, Collingwood, Ontario
^|| School of Physical Therapy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Presented at the annual general meeting of Speed Skating Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 2001; the International Skating Union Council meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2001, and the Canadian Academy of Sports Medicine annual symposium, Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada, March 2002.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Andrew Quinn, MD, 45 Neville Crescent, Brampton, Ontario, L6S 5L5 Canada

Background: Little is known about the pattern of injury in short track speed skating.

Purpose: To investigate the incidence and characteristics of injuries in short track speed skating.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Methods: Ninety-five of 150 elite-level skaters (63.3%) were surveyed to collect information on training and competition load as well as on injuries sustained during the 1999–2000 competitive season. Injuries were characterized in terms of anatomic location, type of injury, time loss from training and competition, and circumstance of injury (acute onset during competition, on-ice practice, off-ice training, or insidious onset).

Results: Sixty-one of the 95 skaters (64.2%) reported sustaining at least one injury. The knee, ankle, spine, leg, and groin were the most commonly reported sites of injury. Skaters were also asked to list previous on-ice injuries. The two most common injuries occurring on-ice before the 1999–2000 season were lacerations from the knee down (11.1%) and ankle fractures (10.2%).

Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that there is a high incidence of injury in competitive short track speed skating.