Leading Medicine Magazine featured a recent interview with Dr. Jafarnia on some of the most common injuries that have affected Winter Olympic athletes in the past and how current conditions may impact them during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
In the article, Dr. Jafarnia underscores that while injury rates have increased, severity has not – stating that the most common injury types over the years as reported in studies were joint and ligament injury (41.5%), fracture and bone bruises (24.4%), concussion (11.1%) and muscle/tendon injury (10.7%). And the most common severely injured body parts were the knees (29.9%), head and face (12.1%), shoulders and clavicle (10.5%) and lower back (8.9%).
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