Table 2 Game-related injuries-distribution of injured body regions for different event categories over different educational stages
Injured body region | Category | Kindergartena | Elementary schoola | Middle + high schoola | All educational stagesa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hand | Break | 14 (37.8%) | 944 (44.5%) | 483 (34.9%) | 1441 (40.7%) |
Lesson | 3 (8.1%) | 241 (11.4%) | 242 (17.5%) | 486 (13.7%) | |
Physical education | 1 (2.7%) | 95 (4.5%) | 134 (9.7%) | 230 (6.5%) | |
Before-after school | 1 (2.7%) | 34 (1.6%) | 17 (1.2%) | 52 (1.5%) | |
Not reported | 18 (48.6%) | 806 (38%) | 509 (36.8%) | 1333 (37.6%) | |
Total-hand | 37 (10.7%)b | 2120 (23.9%)b | 1385 (34.1%)b | 3542 (26.7%)b | |
Head | Break | 90 (32.5%) | 2380 (50.8%) | 571 (44.2%) | 3041 (48.7%) |
Lesson | 33 (11.9%) | 381 (8.1%) | 188 (14.5%) | 602 (9.6%) | |
Physical education | 0 (0%) | 123 (2.6%) | 69 (5.3%) | 192 (3.1%) | |
Before-after school | 1 (0.4%) | 67 (1.4%) | 12 (0.9%) | 80 (1.3%) | |
Not reported | 153 (55.2%) | 1730 (37%) | 453 (35%) | 2336 (37.3%) | |
Total-head | 277 (80.5%)b | 4681 (52.9%)b | 1293 (31.9%)b | 6251 (47.2%)b | |
Leg/foot | Break | 8 (44.4%) | 702 (46.3%) | 372 (34.5%) | 1082 (41.4%) |
Lesson | 2 (11.1%) | 134 (8.8%) | 178 (16.5%) | 314 (12.0%) | |
Physical education | 0 (0%) | 73 (4.8%) | 116 (10.8%) | 189 (7.3%) | |
Before-after school | 0 (0% | 28 (1.8%) | 9 (0.8%) | 37 (1.4%) | |
Not reported | 8 (44.4%) | 579 (38.2%) | 403 (37.4%) | 990 (37.9%) | |
Total-leg/foot | 18 (5.2%)b | 1516 (17.1%)b | 1078 (26.6%)b | 2612 (19.7%)b | |
Other body regions | Break | 3 (25%) | 251 (46.9%) | 120 (39.9%) | 374 (44.1%) |
Lesson | 1 (8.3%) | 58 (10.8%) | 44 (14.6%) | 103 (12.1%) | |
Physical education | 0 (0%) | 16 (3%) | 29 (9.6%) | 46 (5.4%) | |
Before-after school | 0 (0%) | 5 (0.9% | 1 (0.3%) | 6 (0.7%) | |
Not reported | 8 (66.7%) | 205 (38.3%) | 107 (35.5%) | 320 (37.7%) | |
Total-other regions | 12 (3.5%)b | 535 (6.1%)b | 301 (7.4%)b | 849 (6.4%)b | |
All body regions | All categories | 344 (2.6%)c | 8852 (66.8%)c | 4057 (30.6%)c | 13,253 (100%)c |