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Abstract:
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Wrestling is one of the oldest sports in the world, originating as a form of combat more than 15,000 years ago. While women have been taking part in wrestling throughout the history of the sport, more recently further opportunities have become available for them to participate in the organized version in the United States. The popularity of the sport among women became quite obvious after it was added as an Olympic sport in 2004. Most of the existing data about injuries in wrestlers is taken from surveillance and administrative data focused on men. In order to know whether the injury rates are the same for women and if the same types of injuries are occurring, we quantified the frequency of injuries for women wrestlers using 2016 and 2017 discharge data from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS), Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. We then examined repeat visits for female wrestlers and the time between initial and subsequent visits taking into account factors such as weight, age, payer, and injury severity.
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