Incidence of injuries per 1000 hours of refereeing or training in soccer referees: A mini-review

Sebastián Rodríguez ^[1] ; María Fernanda Rodríguez-Jaime ^[3] ; Angie Natalia Suarez-Cuervo ^[1] ; Catalina León Prieto ^[2]
1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  
  Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  
  Colombia
2. [2] Universidad del Rosario
  
  Universidad del Rosario
  
  Colombia
3. [3] Universidad Santiago de Compostela
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Localización: Apunts: Medicina de l'esport, ISSN 0213-3717, ISSN-e 1886-6581, Vol. 59, Nº 224, 2024
Idioma: inglés
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- Soccer referees, same as players, face intense physical exertion, exposing them to a high risk of injury. However, to date, no review has been conducted that synthesizes the injury incidence rate per 1000 h of exposure. Therefore, the purpose of this mini-review was to systematically examine the literature on the incidence of injury per 1000 h of exposure related to refereeing and training in soccer referees. A search was conducted in PubMed, Web of Science and ScienceDirect, resulting in the identification of 299 articles, of which 5 met the established inclusion criteria. The quality of the selected studies was assessed using the checklists provided by SIGN. In total, a group of 625 soccer referees was analyzed. The injury incidence rate during refereeing was found to be 14.43 injuries per 1000 h of exposure, while for training it was 8.59 injuries per 1000 h of exposure.