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The extent and risk of knee injuries in children aged 9–14 with Generalised Joint Hypermobility and knee joint hypermobility - the CHAMPS-study Denmark

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, June 2015
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Title
The extent and risk of knee injuries in children aged 9–14 with Generalised Joint Hypermobility and knee joint hypermobility - the CHAMPS-study Denmark
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12891-015-0611-5
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Tina Junge, Lisbeth Runge Larsen, Birgit Juul-Kristensen, Niels Wedderkopp

Abstract

Generalised Joint Hypermobility (GJH) is suggested as an aetiological factor for knee injuries in adolescents and adults. It is presumed that GJH causes decreased joint stability, thereby increasing the risk of knee injuries during challenging situations like jumping and landing. The aim was to study the extent and risk of knee injuries in children with GJH and knee hypermobility. In total, 999 children (9-14 years) were tested twice during spring 2012 and 2013 with Beighton´s Tests (BT) for hypermobility, a 0-9 scoring system. GJH was classified with cut-point ≥5/9 on both test rounds. On basis of weekly cell phone surveys of knee pain, children requiring clinical examination were seen. Traumatic and overuse knee injuries were registered by WHO ICD-10 diagnoses. Logistic regression and Poisson regression models with robust standard errors were used to examine the association between GJH and knee injuries, taking into account clustering on school class levels. Totally, 36 children were classified GJH on both test rounds. Overuse knee injuries were the most frequent injury type (86 %), mainly apophysitis for both groups (61 %), other than patella-femoral pain syndrome for the control group (13 %). For traumatic knee injuries, distortions and contusions were most frequent in both groups (51 % resp. 36 %), besides traumatic lesions of knee tendons and muscles for the control group (5 %). No significant association was found between overuse knee injuries and GJH with/without knee hypermobility (OR 0.69, p = 0.407 resp. OR 0.75, p = 0.576) or traumatic knee injuries and GJH with/without knee hypermobility (OR 1.56, p = 0.495 resp. OR 2.22, p = 0.231). Apophysitis, distortions and contusions were the most frequent knee injuries. Despite the relatively large study, the number of children with GJH and knee injuries was low, with no significant increased risk for knee injuries for this group. This questions whether GJH is a clinically relevant risk factor for knee injuries in school children aged 9-14 years. A fluctuation in the individual child´s status of GJH between test rounds was observed, suggesting that inter- and intra-tester reproducibility of BT as well as growth may be considered important confounders to future studies of children with GJH.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Unknown 118 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 25 21%
Student > Bachelor 18 15%
Researcher 12 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 9%
Other 8 7%
Other 22 18%
Unknown 25 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 37 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 23 19%
Sports and Recreations 17 14%
Engineering 4 3%
Neuroscience 2 2%
Other 11 9%
Unknown 27 22%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 20 June 2015.
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#6,345,081
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Outputs from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#1,178
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#72,145
of 266,407 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#15
of 47 outputs
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