Professional Basketball Injuries
- 1 November 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Physician and Sportsmedicine
- Vol. 10 (11) , 81-86
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00913847.1982.11947370
Abstract
In a ten-year study of 70 professional basketball players, 47 sustained 265 injuries that most frequently occurred during early-season games. Centers, who had the highest injury rate, most frequently injured their backs; guards most frequently injured elbows and knees; and forwards most often injured fingers and knees. Strains and sprains were the most common problems. Most injuries resulted from trauma rather than from training or conditioning errors.Keywords
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- The injury rate in professional basketballThe American Journal of Sports Medicine, 1982