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SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

The Most Common Handball Injuries: A Systematic Review.

Helena Vila, Andrea Barreiro, Carlos Ayán, Antonio Antúnez, Carmen Ferragut

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Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Off-season beach handball participation lowers injury incidence among handball players-A cross-sectional survey on 641 athletes.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2025
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  20. Sports Injuries of a Portuguese Professional Football Team during Three Consecutive Seasons.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Helena VilaDepartment of Special Didactics, Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences, University of Vigo, 36005 Pontevedra, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7860-4598
Andrea BarreiroFaculty of Education and Sport Science, University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
Carlos AyánDepartment of Special Didactics, Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences, University of Vigo, 36005 Pontevedra, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3374-843X
Antonio AntúnezResearch Group in Optimization of Training and Sports Performance (GOERD), University of Extremadura, 10005 Caceres, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7451-4448
Carmen FerragutDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Science Health, University of Alcala, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3291-3042
Universidade de Vigo · ESUniversidad de Alcalá · ESUniversidad de Extremadura · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Handball is a team sport involving a great physical demand from its practitioners in which a high number of injuries occur, affecting individual and collective performance. Knowledge of the injuries is of great importance for their prevention. The objective of the present study was to identify, locate and compare the most frequent injuries and injury mechanisms in handball practice. It was carried out following the Preferred Informed Item for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) guidelines. The source of data collection was direct consultation of the PubMed and Medline databases. Several keywords were used for the documentary retrieval, and the quality of the studies that were selected was evaluated. Of the 707 studies retrieved, only 27 were considered appropriate for the review, and quality scores were obtained that ranged from 10 to 26 points, out of a maximum of 28. The most frequent injuries in handball players are located in the lower limbs (thigh, knee and ankle), and in the shoulder in the upper limbs. Regarding the playing position, the players who play over the 6-m line are the most affected by injuries, while the women players have a higher probability of injury. Most injuries occur during competition.

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Athletic InjuriesSportsFemaleHumansKnee JointLower ExtremityMaleShoulderathletesepidemiologyoveruse injuriespreventionteam sports

Identifiers

PMID36078403
PMCPMC9518369
OpenAlexW4293537979

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