Table 2

Average biweekly prevalence of all health problems and of substantial problems, prevalence given as the biweekly per cent of injured players in the entire population (95% CI)

OverallSoccerBasketballGymnastics
All health problems60.5 (55.7 to 65.7)61.1 (53.9 to 69.2)59.7 (51.6 to 69.2)60.5 (50.9 to 71.8)
 Injury47.9 (43.6 to 52.6)48.0 (41.7 to 55.3)46.6 (39.5 to 55.1)49.3 (40.1 to 59.6)
  Acute35.7 (32.0 to 39.7)37.9 (32.4 to 44.4)34.9 (28.8 to 42.3)32.6 (25.8 to 41.2)
  Overuse12.2 (7.6 to 23.3)10.1 (7.4 to 13.7)11.7 (8.4 to 16.4)16.7 (12.1 to 23.2)
 Illness 9.1 (5.1 to 19.0) 9.1 (6.6 to 12.6)10.7 (7.6 to 15.1) 7.0 (4.2 to 11.6)
 Unclassified 3.5 (1.3 to 10.9) 3.9 (2.4 to 6.4) 2.3 (1.1 to 4.9) 4.2 (2.2 to 8.0)
Substantial health problems30.7 (23.45 to 47.6)34.7 (29.4 to 41.0)33.6 (27.6 to 40.8)19.1 (14.0 to 25.9)
 Injury25.2 (18.6 to 40.5)28.3 (23.6 to 34.0)27.9 (22.5 to 34.5)15.8 (11.3 to 22.1)
  Acute20.2 (14.2 to 34.0)23.4 (19.1 to 28.6)22.8 (18.0 to 28.9)10.7 (7.1 to 16.1)
  Overuse 5.0 (2.2 to 13.1) 4.9 (3.2 to 7.6) 5.0 (3.0 to 8.3) 5.1 (2.8 to 9.2)
 Illness 4.1 (1.7 to 11.8) 5.2 (3.4 to 7.9) 4.7 (2.8 to 7.9) 1.4 (0.5 to 4.3)
 Unclassified 1.3 (0.3 to 7.9) 1.2 (0.5 to 3.0) 1.0 (0.3 to 3.1) 1.9 (0.7 to 5.0)