Type of subsequent injury sustained by community football players, according to the classification by Hamilton et al4
| Number of injuries per player | Number of players | Total number of subsequent injuries | Number (%) of subsequent injuries according to injury category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | Local | Recurrent | |||
| 2 | 161 | 161 | 128 (80%) | 18 (11%) | 15 (9%) |
| 3 | 86 | 172 | 133 (77%) | 18 (11%) | 21 (12%) |
| 4 | 18 | 54 | 36 (67%) | 12 (22%) | 6 (11%) |
| 5 | 8 | 32 | 23 (71%) | 4 (13%) | 5 (16%) |
| 6 | 5 | 25 | 20 (80%) | 2 (8%) | 3 (12%) |
| 7 | 3 | 18 | 10 (55%) | 2 (11%) | 6 (34%) |
| 8 | 1 | 7 | 5 (71%) | 2 (29%) | 0 |
| Total | 282 | 469 | 355 (76%) | 58 (12%) | 56 (12%) |
Cases in which the players sustained only one injury are not included because they were not ‘subsequent’ to another injury. Local injuries were classified when successive injuries had an Orchard Sports Injury Coding System (OSICS-10 code) to the same body region but a different pathology. Recurrent injuries had exactly the same fout-digit OSICS-10 code.