BACKGROUND: Most injuries in school occur during sport. OBJECTIVES: To explore the impact of @entity2587 in supervised school sport. METHOD: A prospective study of @entity2587 in @entity1 of secondary school age presenting to the accident and emergency department. Each @entity1 was identified on registration, matched with medical records after discharge, and contacted later by telephone to complete a structured interview. @entity1 were only included if their injury was sustained during supervised school sport. RESULTS: During the study period, 194 @entity1 aged 11-18 attended the accident and emergency department with an injury, 51% of which occurred during school sport. @entity130 occurred most commonly in rugby (43%), followed by physical education and games together (17.5%). Most injuries were x rayed (72%). Just over 12% of pupils lost no time from sport, most (71%) were back to sport within three weeks, and 2.7% were injured for more than eight weeks. Almost a third of parents needed to take time off from work to deal with the injured @entity1 . CONCLUSION: School sports injuries are important. They account for just over half of all injuries in secondary school @entity1 . They cause significant disruption to school and sport and have important implications for the wider family.

Impact of school XXXX .

@entity2587 :: ('MESH:D001265', 'Disease') :: ['sports injury'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['children', 'Patients', 'patients', 'patient', 'child'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['Injuries']
@entity2587 :: (MESH:D001265,Disease) :: ['sports injury']
