Neurologic Injuries in Boxing and Other Combat Sports - 05/08/11

Doi : 10.1016/j.pmr.2008.10.004

Tsharni R. Zazryn, BAppSci (Human Movement) ^a,^⁎ , Paul R. McCrory, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FACSP, FASMF, FACSM, FRSM, GradDipEpidStats ^b, Peter A. Cameron, MBBS, MD, FACEM ^c
^a Department of Health Science, Monash University, McMahons Road, Frankston, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3199
^b Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine and the Brain Research Institute, University of Melbourne, 202 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3010
^c Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3004

Corresponding author.

Abstract

Many sports have neurologic injury from incidental head contact; however, combat sports allow head contact, and a potential exists for acute and chronic neurologic injuries. Although each combat sport differs in which regions of the body can be used for contact, they are similar in competitor exposure time. Their acute injury rates are similar; thus their injuries can appropriately be considered together. Injuries of all types occur in combat sports, with injuries in between one fifth to one half of all fights in boxing, karate, and tae kwon do. Most boxing injuries are to the head and neck region. In other combat sports, the head and neck region are the second (after the lower limbs) or the first most common injury site.

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Keywords : Boxing, Concussion, Head injury, Chronic traumatic encephalopathy