Table 1

Team, player, exposure and injury characteristics during international floorball tournaments from 2012 to 2015

	Women			Men			All
	CC	WFC	Total	CC	WFC	Total	CC	WFC	Total
Tournaments	4	2	6	4	2	6	8	4	12
Teams, n	24	32	56	24	32	56	48	64	112
Players, n	450	629	1079	466	634	1100	916	1263	2179
Mean age of players (SD)	23.1 (4.2)	24.3 (4.9)	23.8 (4.7)	24.6 (4.4)	25.8 (4.9)	25.3 (4.7)	23.9 (4.4)	25.1 (5.0)	24.6 (4.8)
Games, n	33	96	129	33	91	124	66	187	253
Practice sessions, n	96	272	368	96	256	352	192	528	720
Warm-up sessions, n	66	192	258	66	182	248	132	374	506
Game hours^*	396	1166	1562	398	1100	1498	794	2266	3060
Training hours^†	2446	7238	9684	2497	6873	9370	4943	14 111	19 054
Total hours (game + training)	2842	8404	11 246	2895	7973	10 868	5737	16 377	22 114
Injured players, n	5	22	27	13	27	40	18	49	67
Mean age of injured players (SD)	21.6 (3.4)	25.1 (5.2)	24.5 (5.0)	25.2 (5.7)	24.8 (4.4)	24.9 (4.8)	24.2 (5.3)	25.0 (4.7)	24.7 (4.9)
All game injuries, n	5	22	27	12	26	38	17	48	65
Incidence per 1000 game hours	12.63	18.87	17.29	30.15	23.64	25.37	21.41	21.18	21.24
95 % CI	1.63 to 23.62	11.06 to 26.68	10.82 to 23.75	13.35 to 46.95	14.66 to 32.61	17.40 to 33.33	11.34 to 31.48	15.25 to 27.11	16.13 to 26.35
Timeloss game injuries, n	5	16	21	12	17	29	17	33	50
Incidence per 1000 game hours	12.63	13.72	13.44	30.15	15.45	19.36	21.41	14.56	16.34
95 % CI	1.63 to 23.62	7.04 to 20.40	7.73 to 19.16	13.35 to 46.95	8.16 to 22.74	12.38 to 26.34	11.34 to 31.48	9.63 to 19.50	11.85 to 20.83
All training injuries, n	–	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	3
Incidence per 1000 training hours	–	0.14	0.10	0.40	0.15	0.21	0.20	0.14	0.16
95 % CI	–	0.00 to 0.41	0.00 to 0.31	0.00 to 1.19	0.00 to 0.43	0.00 to 0.51	0.00 to 0.60	0.00 to 0.34	0.00 to 0.34
Timeloss training injuries, n	–	–	–	1	1	2	1	1	2
Incidence per 1000 training hours	–	–	–	0.40	0.15	0.21	0.20	0.07	0.10
95% CI	–	–	–	0.00 to 1.19	0.00 to 0.43	0.00 to 0.51	0.00 to 0.60	0 to 0.21	0 to 0.25
All reported injuries, n	5	23	28	13	27	40	18	50	68
Incidence per 1000 total hours	1.76	2.74	2.49	4.49	3.39	3.68	3.14	3.05	3.07
95% CI	0.22 to 3.30	1.62 to 3.85	1.57 to 3.41	2.05 to 6.93	2.11 to 4.66	2.54 to 4.82	1.69 to 4.58	2.21 to 3.90	2.35 to 3.80
All timeloss injuries, n	5	16	21	13	18	31	18	34	52
Incidence per 1000 total hours	1.76	1.90	1.87	4.49	2.26	2.85	3.14	2.08	2.35
95% CI	0.22 to 3.30	0.97 to 2.84	1.07 to 2.67	2.05 to 6.93	1.22 to 3.30	1.85 to 3.86	1.69 to 4.58	1.38 to 2.77	1.71 to 2.99

*Actual playing time and played overtime.
†Scheduled team practices and game warm-up sessions.
CC, Champions Cup; WFC, World Floorball Championships.