Injury Patterns in Collegiate Club Quidditch

Sports Medicine - Open

Table 2 Injury mechanisms^a

Mechanism of injury	AE 12735			Men (AE 6900)			Women (AE 5835)
	Total no.	% of total	IR per 1000 AEs 95% CI	No.	% of men	IR per 1000 AEs 95% CI	No.	% of women injury	IR per 1000 AEs 95% CI	Incidence rate ratio 95% CI
Collision with balls	2	3%	0.16 (0.04, 0.63)^b	2	6%	0.29 (0.07, 1.16)	0	0%	0.00	N/A
Collision with ground	11	19%	0.86 (0.48, 1.56)	7	19%	1.01 (0.48, 2.13)	4	18%	0.69 (0.26, 1.83)	1.48 (0.43, 5.06)
Collision with other athletes	17	29%	1.33 (0.83, 2.15)	13	36%	1.88 (1.09, 3.24) ^b	4	18%	0.69 (0.26, 1.83)	2.75 (0.90, 8.43)
Non-contact	15	26%	1.18 (0.71, 1.95)	8	22%	1.16 (0.58, 2.32)	7	32%	1.20 (0.57, 2.52)	0.97 (0.35, 2.67)
Overuse	8	14%	0.63 (0.31, 1.26)	4	11%	0.58 (0.22, 1.54)	4	18%	0.69 (0.26, 1.83)	0.85 (0.21, 3.38)
Unknown	5	9%	0.39 (0.16, 0.94)^b	2	6%	0.29 (0.07, 1.16)	3	14%	0.51 (0.17, 1.59)	0.56 (0.09, 3.37)
Total	58	100%		36	100%		22	100%

Abbreviation: N/A not applicable
^aIncidence rates per 1000 athlete exposures for men’s and women’s team, incidence rate ratios for men’s/women’s team
^bIncidence rate ratio significant at the α = .05 level