Sports injuries in emergency medical care practice using the example of the European North region

The aim: of the work is to study the cases of sports injuries in emergency medical care calls in the Komi Republic in 2024.

Materials and methods: There were analyzed 287 outpatient cards of patients who contacted emergency medical care stations because of injuries received during physical education and sport activities in all the municipalities of the Komi Republic.

Results: As a result, the number of cases related to sports injuries amounted to 0.8 % of all registered calls to emergency medical care stations regarding injuries. More often sports injuries were registered in the Sosnogorsk district (10 cases per 10 000 population), less often — in the city of Vorkuta (0.4 cases per 10 000 population). The majority (64 %) of sports-related injuries were received indoors. The largest number of injuries was recorded among students during physical education lessons for both sexes, on the second place there are sport games in terms of injury risk. Men of the studied social groups were injured more often when playing mini-football, hockey and doing martial arts, and the opposite sex, women, were injured when playing volleyball.

Conclusion: The greatest number of sports injuries in the Komi Republic is among students of educational institutions with an average age of 13б4 years for boys and 12,4 years for girls. According to the registered data the greatest number of injuries among boys was received during the training lessons (44,5 %), and 49,3 % of injuries among girls were received during physical education lessons in educational institutions. The greatest number of injuries among men was recorded in team sports and martial arts; among women — in team sports and complex coordination sports. The most traumatic kind of sport was hockey, on the second place there was mini-football and athletics was on the third place.

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