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Research skills ppt
1. A study on injuries in Ultimate Frisbee
by Anthony Coppola
2. Overview
What is Ultimate Frisbee?
Movements common to the sport
Types of injuries that occur
Research
3. Research
Ten articles
5 articles on Ultimate Frisbee since 1991
Three articles on injuries in Ultimate Frisbee since 1991
4. What is Ultimate Frisbee?
What is Ultimate? (Griggs, 2009)
History
5. Ultimate Frisbee Injuries
Body part injured Number of Injuries
Adomen 4
Chest 9
Head 7
Face 15
Neck 10
Back 29
Shoulder 22
Upper arm 1
Elbow 23
Forearm 6
Wrist 8
Hand 28
Hip 10
Thigh 103
Knee 73
Shin 18
Calf 30
Ankle 59
Foot 30
Marfleet, 1991
N=1000
Age: 18-29
Survey
6. Ultimate Frisbee Injuries
Reynolds, 2006
N=135
Mean Age:28 years old
Survey
76
65
53
Number of Injuries
37
30
22
77
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Muscle Ankle Knee Shoulder Head Ribs Other
Number of Injuries
11. Conclusion
Ultimate Frisbee popularity on the rise
Not enough information on Ultimate Frisbee
Injury rates still unknown
12. References
Andrews, J., & Fleisig, G. (2011). Preventing Throwing Injuries. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy,187-188. Retrieved November 25,
2014, from http://www.udel.edu/PT/PT Clinical Services/ journalclub/sojc/10-11/Feb/Baseball2.pdf
Griggs, G. (2009). The Origins and Development of Ultimate Frisbee. Sport Journal, 12(3). Retrieved October 24, 2014.
Marfleet, P. (1991). Ultimate injuries: A survey. British Journal of Sports Medicine,25(4), 235-240. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
Myers, J. (2005). Scapular Position and Orientation in Throwing Athletes. American Journal of Sports Medicine, 263-271. Retrieved November 25,
2014.
Olcott, C., Guzman, R., & Zarins, C. (1999). Upper Extremity Vascular Problems in Athletes. Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular
Therapy,1-14. Retrieved November 25, 2014, from
http://zarinslab.stanford.edu/publications/zarins_bib/zarins_pdf/1990s/olcott_upper_pvs_1999.pdf
Reynolds, K., & Halsmer, S. (2006). Injuries from Ultimate Frisbee. Wisconsin Medical Journal, 105(6). Retrieved November 24, 2014.
Sadoghi, P., Keudell, A., & Vavken, P. (2012). Effectiveness of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Prevention Training Programs. The Journal of Bone
and Joint Surgery (American), 94(9), 1-8. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
Steffen, K., Bakka, H., Myklebust, G., & Bahr, R. (2007). Performance aspects of an injury prevention program: A ten-week intervention in
adolescent female football players. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 596-604. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
Swedler, D., Nuwer, J., Nazarov, A., Huo, S., & Malevanchik, L. (2014). Incidence and Descriptive Epidemiology of Injuries to College Ultimate
Players. Journal of Athletic Training, 49(3). Retrieved November 24, 2014, from http://natajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.4085/1062-6050-49.3.73
Warden, S., Davis, I., & Fredericson, M. (2014). Management and Prevention of Bone Stress Injuries in Long-Distance Runners. Journal of
Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 44(10), 749-765. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
Editor's Notes
Ultimate frisbee is a combonitation of multple sports put into one. Soccer and American Football are the two most similar to the sport. Frisbee is a nonconatct sportplayed with a flying disc. The name frisbee according to Gerald Griggs originates from the Frisbie Pie Company founded by Willima Russell Frisbie. Students at Yale used to buy pies from the bakery and toss the empty tins which became known as frisbees. Frisbee is very unique as there are no officials it is player officiated. Griggs states that this was part of the American counter culture of the 1960’s and 70’s to avoid the structure pushed on the people by the government. It has evolved into a growing sport that is now played world wide. It has even begun to show up on ESPN top ten highlight reels.
This study Marfleet performed surveyed on 1000 ultimate Frisbee athletes at multiple venues in Europe. The athletes ranged from 18-29 years of age. The most common injuries had something to do with the lower extremities. Frisbee causes people to dive for the disc at speed as well as changing direction at speed. These actions make it inevitable that muscle strains will occur and possibly more severe injuries as the results of this survey showed. The most common body part injured was the thigh followed closely by the knee.
A similar study was performed by Reynolds to view injuries in ultimate players. At an ultimate frisbee tournament 900 athletes asked to take a survey 135 of them returned the survey and 129 completed both sides. The average age of the athletes was 28 years old. 79 men and 56 women took the survey. The majority of the injuries were lower extremity muscles. hamstrings and quadriceps were among the most frequent of injuries. The main point Reynolds wanted to state was that with ultimate Frisbee growing rapidly medical professionals need to be aware of the injuries that are associated with the sport. However there is not enough information availble.
Swedler performed the most complete study on ultimate frisbee injuries that I could find. He used an online survey program to collect data. 229 people filled out the survey from 106 different collegiate ultimate teams with one team member as a contact for the study. The team contact was given an injury definition tutorial as well as how to use the program. From the data collected swedler was able to conclude that the majority of injuries were to the lower extremities. Comparing the information with that of the NCAA injury reports for male and female collegiate soccer players the injuries were similar. However the NCAA is more complete with there analysis of injuries.
It is common for baseball players especially at the collegiate and professional level to suffer from shoulder problems and require surgery. Andrews discusses the cycle of injury prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation from the standpoint of baseball. Treatment and rehabilitation have increased largely in recent years with surgeries extending careers of athletes. However the most important part of the cycle, injury prevention, has been neglected. Andrews talks about the need to focus on ways to prevent injury by understanding the demands we put on the body.
Steffen performed a study on adolescent females to view the effects of a warm up that is an injury prevention program. The study was performed on 18 girls with 16 girls in the control group. The results showed no significant difference in performance after ten weeks.
Myers performed a study to discover whether a difference in scapular position of throwing athletes differed from non throwing athletes. This showed that the scapular position and orientation did change for throwing athletes which allowed for better throwing. This allows for medical professionals to understand the differences between throwing athletes shoulders and non throwing athletes. This is something that needs to be done in Ultimate frisbee as it is an up and coming sport.
Sadoghi studies the effectiveness of an ACL prevention program. In this study he was able to see weather or not ACL injuries could be prevented with a strengthening program. He was able to conclude that the program did have a significant effect in preventing injury in the ACL. Preventative programs can work if enough information is gathered.
With ultimate Frisbee becoming more and more popular the lack of information on it is worrisome. With more people playing the sport more people will get injured with out proper information on how to prevent, treat, and rehabilitate the injuries commonly caused in the sport. It becomes more crucial that studies be performed on the injuries common to the sport to inform medical professionals on how they occur so they can find the best way to prevent treat and rehabilitate injuries.
