237 Contact injuries predominate in female youth team sports: an opportunity for prevention
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Abstract
<h3>Background</h3> Sport participation is the leading cause of injury in youth. Female youth are underrepresented in the sport injury literature and present with a different injury profile than males. <h3>Objective</h3> To investigate sport-related injury rates, types, locations and mechanisms in female youth team sports. <h3>Design</h3> Secondary analysis of a cross-sectional study. <h3>Setting</h3> High schools in Alberta, Canada. <h3>Participants</h3> Female students who reported playing one of the top ten team sports for participation (i.e., baseball, basketball, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, football, rugby, ringette, field hockey, ice hockey). Assessment of Risk Factors A 45-minute survey included questions regarding demographic information, sport participation, and one-year injury and concussion history. <h3>Main Outcome Measurements</h3> Self-reported injuries sustained in the past year. <h3>Results</h3> 51.7% (1048/2029) of high school students completing the survey were female and 481/1048 (45.9%) reported playing at least one team sport. Of these, 51.4% reported at least one sport-related injury and 8.9% at least one concussion in the past year. Injury rate based on ‘most serious injury’ reported was highest in ringette (42.9 injuries/100 students/year) and rugby (40.0). The top three most serious injury locations were the knee (24.7%), ankle (21.6%) and head (16.1%). The most common injury types were joint or ligament sprain (26.7%), fracture (13.0%) and concussion (11.8%). Based on all serious injuries reported in female team sports, 73.4% occurred via contact mechanisms (with someone or something). Overuse (16.2%) was the next most common mechanism reported. Of participants that reported concussion as their most serious injury, 100% were attributed to contact mechanisms (38.9% contact with someone; 61.1% contact with something). <h3>Conclusions</h3> Team sport injury rates are high in female high school students. Specific consideration of contact injury mechanisms in female youth team sports will inform development and evaluation of targeted female contact and sport-specific prevention strategies.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".