AbstractThis research has examined injury patterns among adolescent athletes in Malaysia. This
study aims to develop basis information data regarding injury patterns, so that supervision on
athlete’s health and development of effective future injury preventive program is warranted.
Research design used in this study was retrospective descriptive epidemiological study.
This research used convenience sampling method, which refer to the whole medical records from
sports medicine clinics of National Sports Institute (NSI) of Malaysia, to all athletes at the age
of 12 to 20 years old, involving in contact sports (CS) and non-contact sports (NCS), referring
data from 2008 to 2010. The data from this study is evaluated based on five research areas i.e.
nature of injury, body category, types of injury (acute or chronic), injury severity (mild,
moderate, severe) and identification types of sports (CS or NCS) that contributing to more
injuries. The descrip.....