Table 8

Severity of injury in 13 articles

Year	Author	Population	Severity classification
Year	Author	Population	Trivial (0)	Slight (1–3)	Minor (4–7)	Moderate (7–30)	Major (>30)
2003	Giza⁵⁹	Professional	49.97%*	42.42%*	3.03%*	3.03%*	4.55%*

			1 (0)	2 (1–3)	3 (4–7)	4 (8–30)	5 (>30)
2004	Yoon⁶³	Professional & adolescent	67.7%	22.7%	5%	3.8%	0.8%

				Slight (1–3)	Minor (4–6)	Moderate (7–30)	Major (>30)
1999	Hawkins⁷	Professional & adolescent		16%	35%	38%	11%

				Slight (2–3)	Minor (4–7)	Moderate (7–30)	Major (>30)
2001	Hawkins⁸	Professional		10%	23%	45%	23%

				Slight (0)	Minor (1–7)	Moderate (8–21)	Major (>21)
2004	Junge⁶⁰	Adolescent		69.3%	19.9%	7.3%	3.4%

					Mild (7–13)	Moderate (14–30)	Severe (>30)
2000	Junge⁵⁵ (Alsace)	Adolescent			40.4%	31.6%	28.1%
2000	Junge⁵⁵ (Czech)	Adolescent			40%	35.4%	24.6%

					Mild (0–7)	Moderate (8–29)	Severe (⩾30)
2000	Peterson⁵⁶	From adolescent to adult			52.15%*	32.44%*	15.41%*

					Minor (0–6)	Moderate (8–29)	Major (>30)
1983	Ekstrand³²	Senior			62%	27%	11%
2001	Morgan²⁹	Professional			60%	26%	14%

					Minor (0–6)	Moderate (7–30)	Major (>30)
Severity was classified according to the number of days absent because of injury (shown in parentheses). Percentage was calculated from total (whole body) injury data.
*Data in original articles were recalculated to suit the format.
1991	Engstrom⁴¹	Professional			49%	36%	15%
1996	Luthje⁴³	Professional			50%	36%	14%
2001	Soderman²⁶	Adolescent			34%	52%	14%
2003	Kakavelakis²⁸	Adolescent			30%	38%	32%