Injury in elite New Zealand cricketers 2002-2008: descriptive epidemiology.

Objective: To describe the incidence, prevalence, nature and severity of injury to elite New Zealand cricketers for the 2002/2003 to 2007/2008 seasons.

Design: Prospective cohort.

Setting: Elite cricket in New Zealand.

Risk factors for injury in community-level football: a cohort study.

We investigated the independent effect of commonly postulated risk factors on injury incidence in amateur football (soccer), using a prospective cohort design with follow-up over two seasons. A total of 1702 male and female players aged 13 years or older contributed information on 21,797 player-matches. Confirmed, were the effect of male vs.