Acute injuries in student circus artists with regard to gender specific differences

  • Purpose: Student circus artists train as both artists and athletes with their bodies holding the key to professional success. The daily training load of student circus artists is often associated with maximum physical and psychological stress with injuries posing a threat to a potential professional career. The purpose of this study is the differentiated analysis and evaluation of work accidents in order to initiate the development of injury preventive programs. Methods: The 17 years of data were obtained from standardized anonymous work accident records of the Berlin State Accident Insurance (UKB) as well as a State Artist Educational School (n = 169, Male: 70; Female: 99) from student artists. Evaluation and descriptive statistics were conducted with Excel 2007 and PASW Statistics 18. Results: The injury risk seems to be relatively low (0.3 injuries/1000h). There are gender specific differences as to the location of injuries. Only 7% of the accidents demand a break of more than 3 days. Injury patterns vary depending on the activity and the employment of props/equipment. 75.2% of work accidents have multifactorial and 24.8% exogenous causes. Conclusions: Because physical fitness is all important in the circus arts there are numerous options for injury prevention programs that should be realized subject to gender-specific differences. Follow-ups on chronic complaints and a more individual approach are indispensable due to the very specific activities in the circus arts.

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Author:Eileen M. WankeORCiDGND, Moira McCormack, Franziska Koch, Alice Wanke, Jan David Alexander GronebergORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-298743
URL:http://asjsm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/asjsm/article/view/219
ISSN:2008-7209
ISSN:2008-000X
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23012634
Parent Title (English):Asian journal of sports medicine
Publisher:Tehran Univ. of Medical Sciences, Sports Sports Medicine Research Center
Place of publication:Tehran
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2012
Year of first Publication:2012
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2013/05/08
Tag:Occupational Accidents; Performing Artists; Prevention; Sex
Volume:3
Issue:3
Page Number:8
First Page:153
Last Page:160
Note:
Copyright © 2012 Sports Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
HeBIS-PPN:33923556X
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 790 Freizeitgestaltung, darstellende Künste, Sport
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 3.0