Article Text
Statistics from Altmetric.com
The following electronic only articles are published in conjunction with this issue of BJSM (see also pages 211 and 216)
Neck injuries presenting to emergency departments in the United States from 1990 to 1999 for ice hockey, soccer, and American football
J S Delaney, A Al-Kashmiri
Objective: To examine the number and rate of neck injuries in the community as a whole for ice hockey, soccer, and American football by analysing data from patients presenting to emergency departments in the United States from 1990 to 1999.
Methods: Data compiled for the US Consumer Product Safety Commission were used to generate estimates for the total number of neck injuries and the more specific diagnoses of neck fractures, dislocations, contusions, sprains, strains, and lacerations occurring nationally from 1990 to 1999. These data were combined with yearly participation figures to generate rates of injury …