TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wanke, Eileen M.
A1  - McCormack, Moira
A1  - Koch, Franziska
A1  - Wanke, Alice
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
T1  - Acute injuries in student circus artists with regard to gender specific differences
T2  - Asian journal of sports medicine
N2  - 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.
KW  - Performing Artists
KW  - Occupational Accidents
KW  - Sex
KW  - Prevention
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/29874
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-298743
UR  - http://asjsm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/asjsm/article/view/219
SN  - 2008-7209
SN  - 2008-000X
N1  - 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.
VL  - 3
IS  - 3
SP  - 153
EP  - 160
PB  - Tehran Univ. of Medical Sciences, Sports Sports Medicine Research Center
CY  - Tehran
ER  -