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Impact of CrossFit-Related Spinal Injuries

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, November 2019
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Title
Impact of CrossFit-Related Spinal Injuries
Published in
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, November 2019
DOI 10.1097/jsm.0000000000000553
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Benjamin S. Hopkins, Michael B. Cloney, Kartik Kesavabhotla, Jonathon Yamaguchi, Zachary A. Smith, Tyler R. Koski, Wellington K. Hsu, Nader S. Dahdaleh

Abstract

Exercise-related injuries (ERIs) are a common cause of nonfatal emergency department and hospital visits. CrossFit is a high-intensity workout regimen whose popularity has grown rapidly. However, ERIs due to CrossFit remained under investigated. All patients who presented to the main hospital at a major academic center complaining of an injury sustained performing CrossFit between June 2010 and June 2016 were identified. Injuries were classified by anatomical location (eg, knee, spine). For patients with spinal injuries, data were collected including age, sex, body mass index (BMI), CrossFit experience level, symptom duration, type of symptoms, type of clinic presentation, cause of injury, objective neurological examination findings, imaging type, number of clinic visits, and treatments prescribed. Four hundred ninety-eight patients with 523 CrossFit-related injuries were identified. Spine injuries were the most common injuries identified, accounting for 20.9%. Among spine injuries, the most common location of injury was the lumbar spine (83.1%). Average symptom duration was 6.4 months ± 15.1, and radicular complaints were the most common symptom (53%). A total of 30 (32%) patients had positive findings on neurologic examination. Six patients (6.7%) required surgical intervention for treatment after failing an average of 9.66 months of conservative treatment. There was no difference in age, sex, BMI, or duration of symptoms of patients requiring surgery with those who did not. CrossFit is a popular, high-intensity style workout with the potential to injure its participants. Spine injuries were the most common type of injury observed and frequently required surgical intervention.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 200 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 45 23%
Student > Master 22 11%
Student > Postgraduate 14 7%
Researcher 11 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 6%
Other 30 15%
Unknown 67 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 43 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 37 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 28 14%
Engineering 4 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Other 10 5%
Unknown 75 38%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 56. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 June 2023.
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#101
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#4
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