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Epidemiology of professional bare-knuckle fighting injuries

Don Muzzi, Anna M Blaeser, John Neidecker, Guillem Gonzalez-Lomas. 2022. The Physician and Sportsmedicine.

Read the sourceDOI 10.1080/00913847.2021.1955604PubMed 34380362

The medical question

Which injuries occur in fighters, and where does medical care need stronger evidence?

Injury surveillance helps the Fight Medicine Research Institute identify questions for prevention, assessment and emergency care. The injuries counted, exposure definition and follow-up period matter when comparing medical risk between settings.

Summary

Investigators recorded injuries across sanctioned professional bare-knuckle events, including lacerations, fractures, concussion diagnoses and hospital transfers.

What the abstract reports

  • 141 state-sanctioned professional bare-knuckle bouts held from June 2018 to November 2020 were observed. Of 282 fighters, 105 (36.6%) sustained at least one injury.
  • Lacerations were the most common injury: 98 were recorded, 80 of them facial. 17 fractures were recorded, including 8 hand fractures.
  • 8 concussions with symptoms were recorded. Fighters were transferred to hospital on 5 occasions: 2 for orbital fractures and 3 for traumatic brain injuries.

Source issues recorded

  • The abstract reports that 105 of 282 fighters (36.6%) sustained at least one injury. 105 of 282 is 37.2%. This record gives the counts as the source reports them and records the difference as a source issue.
  • The publisher’s Crossref deposit dates the issue 3 September 2022. PubMed dates the same issue October 2022.

Publication status and notices

Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Observational injury surveillance in The Physician and Sportsmedicine. PubMed publication type: Journal Article.

The publisher’s page carries a correction statement: “This article has been republished with minor changes.” Publisher’s page.

PubMed, Crossref and Scite list no correction, retraction or expression of concern for this article. The publisher’s page carries the republication statement shown above.

Fight Medicine Research Institute contribution

Fight Medicine Research Institute selected and catalogued this study, prepared an original research summary, verified its bibliographic details, and maintains the associated citation record.

Article details

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Published online
12 August 2021
Issue date
3 September 2022, volume 50, issue 5
Repository date
12 August 2021 (Europe PMC first-publication date)
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12 August 2021 (Crossref publisher deposit, online publication date)
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Clinical review
None. This record is a research summary, not clinical education.
Funding and conflicts
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Catalog
FH-019, added

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