Nasal Injuries in Athletes

✍ Scribed by C. Ron Cannon; Rob M. Cannon; Kevin Young; William Replogle; Scott Stringer

• Book ID: 102448064
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 439 KB
• Volume: 119
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0023-852X
• DOI: 10.1002/lary.20399

✦ Synopsis

Objectives: Evaluate nasal injuries as to gender, age, and sport, mechanism of injury, other injuries, treatment, and return to sports activity.

Study Design:

Prospective, observational study of patients seen in a private practice clinic for evaluation of facial injuries suffered in athletic endeavors.

Methods: Outpatient evaluation of patients with sports related nasal injuries (n= 94). Records tabulated for demographics, sport and mechanism of injury, physical findings, and radiographic findings as well as treatment outcomes.

Results: There are a significant number of injuries in women (30%) and in noncontact sports. The sport most commonly implicated in nasal injury is basketball; a closed reduction of a nasal fracture is the most commonly utilized surgical procedure.

Conclusions: Nasal injuries are common in a number of different sports. The majority of injuries are not preventable. These injuries tend to occur in organized sports activities at higher levels of competition. The majority of those injured are able to return to their sport (92%).