How Risky Is Mixed Martial Arts? Injury Rates and Patterns in Competitive Versus Recreational Athletes.

Lukas Groessing, Vasco Starke, Armin Runer, Friedemann Schneider, Markus Merkl, Wolfgang Zemann, Michael Schwaiger

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Training exposure, recovery, and injury incidence among course-based and competitive university Wushu Taolu practitioners: a 12-week prospective cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Lukas GroessingDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical University Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 5, 8036 Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-5844-1672

Vasco StarkeDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical University Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 5, 8036 Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-7722-7754

Armin RunerDepartment for Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9901-6552

Friedemann SchneiderDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0385-0671

Markus MerklDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical University Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 5, 8036 Graz, Austria.

Wolfgang ZemannDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical University Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 5, 8036 Graz, Austria.

Michael SchwaigerDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical University Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 5, 8036 Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-9249-9763

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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economic impactepidemiologyhealthcareinjury preventioninjury ratemixed martial artssports injury

Identifiers

PMID41682259

DOI10.3390/healthcare14030409

PMCPMC12898159

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