Accidents - Football - 26-50 years old - Year 2008 - Lower Leg

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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,898
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Date: 12/16/2008	Age: 40 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Football
PAIN TO LEG GOT HIT PLAYING FOOTBALL DX: CONTUSION TO LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/27/2008	Age: 48 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Hematoma
Product: Football
PLAYING FOOTBALL AT HOME HUSBAND FELL ON HER LOWER LEG PAIN...HEMATOMA TO LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/25/2008	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: School		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
HURT LOWER LEG WHILE RUNNING AT FOOTBALL PRACTICE IS COACH LEG STRAIN #
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/24/2008	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Football
DX LIMB MUSCSKELETAL SYMPTOMS: C/O SUDDEN CALF PAIN W HE PLANTED HIS FT W PLAY'G FOOTBALL THIS A.M.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/16/2008	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
STRAIN LOWER LEG - 30 YO MALE REPORTS JPTA - RUNNING DOWN FIELD WHILE P LAYING FOOTBAL AND FELT "POP" IN HIS LEFT CALF
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/14/2008	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
PT INJURED LEG WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL DX RT LOWER LEG STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/05/2008	Age: 29 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Football
PT WAS TACKLED PLAYING FOOTBALL AND INJURED LEG. DX; LEG CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/03/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
RIGHT LEG STR. PT STRAINED LEG WHEN PLAYING FOOTBALL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/03/2008	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Football
PATIENT WAS PLAYING FLAG FOOTBALL, SLIPPED ON WET GRASS SUSTAINING AN ANKLE INJURY. DX-LEFT DISTAL FIBULA FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/03/2008	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Football
FX LEG PLAYING FOOTBALL AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/03/2008	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
DX STRAIN VS TEAR OF R GASTRO-ACHILLES: PT W SORENESS TO RLE X3 WKS. STATES HEARD SAME AREA "POP" W PLAY'G FOOTBALL TONIGHT. C/O R CALF PAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/27/2008	Age: 33 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
PT HURT LEG PLAYING FOOTBALL. DX; LEG SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/25/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
41 Y/O C/O R CALF & HEEL PAIN X 2 HRS. PT PLAYING FOOTBALL, STEPPED ONT O R FOOT & FELT A POP. HAD IMMEDIATE PAIN. CALF STRAIN.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/19/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Football
PATIENT SUSTAINED A RIGHT PERIODIC LEG MOVEMENT'S INJURY WHILE PLAYING FLAG FOOTBALL TODAY. DX-RT COMMIN. GRADE 3, TIBIA/FIBULA FRACTURE
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 10/15/2008	Age: 47 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Football
RUNNING TRIPPED OVER SOME SOME FOOTBALL EQUIPMENT AT FOOTBALL FIELD CONTUSION LEFT LOWER LEG SPRAIN LEFT ANKLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2008	Age: 28 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Football
28 YOF FELT POP IN CALF WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL LOWER LEG INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2008	Age: 43 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
43YOM WHILE PLAYING IN FOOTBALL GAME WAS HIT IN LT TIBIA AREA; LOWER LEG SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/11/2008	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Football
PT FELL ON RETAINING WALL AT HOME TRYING TO CATCH A FOOTBALL LACERATION RT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/06/2008	Age: 37 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
37 YO PLAYING FOOTBALL W/CHILDREN SLIPPED FELL ON LEG SPRAIN LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/06/2008	Age: 37 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
PT WAS PLAYING TOUCH FOOTBALL YESTERDAY & TWISTED LEG AT PARK DX: STRAINED LEFT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/28/2008	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
PATIENT WAS PLAYING FLAG FOOTBALL AND PLANTED RT FOOT, FELT A POPPING SENSATION LOCATED ON RT ANKLE. DX-RT ACHILLES TENDON DISRUPTION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/26/2008	Age: 35 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
TORN MUSCLE R CALF/35YOM INJURED R CALF IN FOOTBALL GAME.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/20/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
RIGHT CALF STR. PT STRAINED LEG WHEN PLAYING FOOTBALL
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 09/20/2008	Age: 39 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
LEFT CALF STR. PT STRAINED LEG WHEN PLAYING FOOTBALL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/19/2008	Age: 48 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Football
OPPONENTS KNEE HIT PTS LEG WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL, FX LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/09/2008	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
PT WAS INJURED WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL DX RT LOWER LEG STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/03/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Football
PATIENT HURT WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL AT HOME DX: LOWER LEG FRACTURE AND DISLOCATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/02/2008	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
28 YOM WAS PLAYING FOOTBALL AND SUSTAINED ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Football
FX RT FIBULA-SUS INJ TO RT ANKLE WHEN HE TWISTED IT WHILE PLAYING FOOTB ALL.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/23/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
FOOTBALL INJURY, DX; CALF STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/21/2008	Age: 31 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
REPORTS SUDDENLY WHILE RUNNING DEVELOPED ANKLE/LOWER LEG PAIN DURING FO OT BALL GAME>> TENDON ACHILLES TEAR
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/04/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Football
DX L LOWER LEG PAIN: PLAY'G FOOTBALL TODAY, CLIPPED TO L LOWER LEG, TTP ALONG PROXIMAL FIBULA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2008	Age: 45 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
RT LOWER LEG STRAIN.PT WAS PLAYING FOOTBALL AND INJURED LOWER LEG.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/14/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Football
HIT WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL BETWEEN KNEE & CALF,NOW HAS PAIN & NUMBNESS. DX: QUADRICEP CONTUSION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/24/2008	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Football
DX LWBS: L LEG LACERATION PLAYING FOOTBALL; 1CM SUPERFICIAL L SHIN LAC W SLIGHT BLEEDING
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 05/18/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Football
INJURED ANKLE WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL. DX FRACTURE L DISTAL TIBIA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2008	Age: 34 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
34 YOF WAS PLAYING FOOTBALL THIS MORNING AND PULLED SOMETHING LEFT LOWE R LEG, FELT A POP, DX: ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/17/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Football
DX GASTRONEMUSM MM TEAR, AVULSION FX, FIBULA: PLAYING FOOTBALL, FELT A POP IN THE BACK OH HIS LEG IN L CALF REGION W MAX TENDERNESS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2008	Age: 37 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Football
ABRASION TO R LEG FELL PLAYING FOOTBALL
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/04/2008	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
PLAYING FOOTBALL SPRAIN LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/26/2008	Age: 37 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
PT WAS PLAYING FOOTBALL WITH CHILDREN AND INJURED RIGHT LOWER LEG, TENDON SPRAIN OF RIGHT CALF MUSCLE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/19/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Football
PT PLAYING FOOTBALL AND SUSTAINED A CONTUSION TO LEFT LOWER LEG
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/13/2008	Age: 28 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Football
PT HAD LEG PX PLAYING FOOTBALL. DX: LWBS.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 03/23/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
PATIENT WAS PLAYING FOOTBALL TODAY, FELT A POP AND HEARD SOMETHING SNAP IN HIS CALF. DX-GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/23/2008	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Football
PLAYING FOOTBALL FX TIBIA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/09/2008	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Football
PT HEAR A POP IN LOWER LEG WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL. DX: LWBS.
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 02/08/2008	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
32 YOM PLAYING FLAG FOOTBALL AND WAS RUNNING AND PULLED MUSCLE IN LEFT LOWER LEG, DX: STRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/04/2008	Age: 27 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
27 YO MALE FELL WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL STRAIN TIB FIB
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/31/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Football, Amusement attractions
PT C/O LOWER EXTREMITY PAIN AFTER PLAYING TACKLE FOOTBALL IN A ***. D: TIB/ FIB FX
Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility)

Date: 01/07/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Football
CUT LEG WHILE PLAYING FB:FOOTBALL, ?MECH, NOW SWOLLEN&GETTING RED >>CELLULITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/05/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Football
P/W LEG CUT S/P FELL SCRAPING LEG WHILE PLAYING FB: FOOTBALL >>LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/02/2008	Age: 30 years	Sex: Male	Race: Other
Location: Place of recreation or sports		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Lower Leg		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Football
3O YOM PLAYING FOOTBALL SUSTAINED AN ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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