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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,562
See also: Other years, Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2004 | Age: 69 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| LEG PAIN AFTER JOGGING CALF STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/24/2004 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | 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: Exercise |
| PT FELL ONTO LEG STRIKING ROCKS WHILE HIKING TODAY. D: SHIN LACERATION, KNEE STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/19/2004 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| STRAIN R LOWER LEG; STARTED EXCERCISING @ FIRST OF MONTH - PAIN STARTED YESTERDAY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2004 | Age: 52 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: Exercise |
| R LOWER EXTREMETY INJ/52YOM WAS DOING STRETCHING EXERCIES 3 DAYS AGO & LEG HAS BEEN SWOLLEN AND TENDER AND WARM. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/26/2004 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| PT DX MYOFASCIAL STRAIN - C/O PAIN TO BOTH LEGS - PT REPORTS EXCESSIVE EXERCISES X2 DAYS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2004 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Exercise |
| RT FIBULA FRACTURE.PT WAS WALKING AND TWISTED ANKLE AND FELL AND INJURE D LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2004 | Age: 90 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Exercise |
| 90 YEAR OLD FEMALE, PAIN WHILE OUT WALKING RIGHT LEG PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/29/2004 | Age: 82 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: Fracture |
| Product: Exercise |
| FX L FIB/82YOM WAS EXERCISING AT HOME AND INJURED LEG. HAPPENED YESTERD AY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2004 | Age: 70 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: Puncture |
| Product: Exercise |
| SLIPPED WHILE HIKING - HIT SHARP/POINTED ROCK PW LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/26/2004 | Age: 67 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: Fracture |
| Product: Exercise |
| OUT WALKING - STEPPED IN A HOLE FRACTURE DISTAL FIBULA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2004 | Age: 71 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: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Exercise |
| 8 DAYS AGO, PT HIT SHIN AGAINST GLACIER WHILE HIKING IN ***. D: TIBIA C ONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/11/2004 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Exercise |
| RT LEG PAIN-WAS DOING SURGICAL EXERCIXES AND FELT PAIN TO RT LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2004 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| LEFT LOWER LEG STRAIN.PT WAS JOGGING AND FELT A POP IN LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2004 | Age: 84 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: Fracture |
| Product: Exercise |
| SLIPPED HIKING MOUNTAIN FIBULA FRACTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2004 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Exercise |
| 59 YEAR OLD FEMALE WAS OUT WALKING AND FELT A POP ACHILLES TENDONITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2004 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| PT WAS RUNNING ACROSS A LAWN AND STEPPED IN A HOLE WISRTINGF HIS LEFT A NKLE AND THEN FALLING LINJRING LEFT SHOULDER. DX: RUPT.ACHILLES TENDON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2004 | Age: 57 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: Other |
| Product: Exercise |
| BITTEN BY INSECTS WHILE HIKING ON MOUNTAIN TRAIL DX INSECT BITE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2004 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Exercise |
| 65 YO BF - SHIN SPLINTS - NEWLY ENROLLED ON EXERCISE PROGRAM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2004 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| EXERCISING-DOING LEG RAISING LEFT CALF STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/08/2004 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| RUNS 3 MILES A DAY SHIN SPLINTS [SPRAIN] |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2004 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| 53 YEAR OLD MALE FELL YESTERDAY DOING EXERCISES AT PHYSICAL THERAPYMUSC LE STRAIN LEFT LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/29/2004 | Age: 51 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: Exercise |
| PT WENT JOGGING ON THE BEACH FELT A PULL IN RIGHT CALF STRAINED RIGHT L OWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2004 | Age: 65 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: Exercise |
| LEFT CALF MUSCLE TEAR, DEVELOPED PAIN IN LEG WHILE WALKING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/25/2004 | Age: 57 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: Exercise |
| 57 YOF FELL WHILE HIKING SPRAIN LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2004 | Age: 59 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: Fracture |
| Product: Exercise |
| PT TRIPPED WHILE HIKING IN WOODS. DX: R DISTAL FIB FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2004 | Age: 70 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Exercise |
| SUPERFICIAL PHLEBITIS, DEVELOPED A LUMP IN LT LEG WHILE DOING KNEE STRENGTHENING EXERCISE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2004 | Age: 68 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: Fracture |
| Product: Exercise |
| SLIPPED ON ROCK WHILE HIKING FRACTURE DISTAL FIBULA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/27/2004 | Age: 91 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Exercise |
| 91 YO MALE HAS BLACK SPOT ON LEG FROM EXERCISING BLEEDING VARICOSE VEIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2004 | Age: 75 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: Exercise |
| HIKING ON TRAIL - TRIED TO MOVE A FALLEN TREE - 8 DAYS AGO INFECTED ABRASION TO LOWER LEG / SHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2004 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Exercise |
| 54 YO MALE HAS BILATERAL CALF PAIN AFTER WALKING MYALGIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/02/2004 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Exercise |
| PT, WHO HAD BEEN HIKING IN THE WOODS, SUSTAINED INSECT BITE TO LOWER LE G. POSSIBLE TICK. D: CELLULITIS, INSECT BITE (TICK?) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2004 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| LOWER LEG STRAIN - 68 YOM C/O RIGHT LOWER LEG PAIN AFTER EXTENSIVE WALK ING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2004 | Age: 57 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: Fracture |
| Product: Exercise |
| "ROLLED ANKLE" WHILE HIKING FRACTURE DISTAL FIBULA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/27/2004 | Age: 88 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: Exercise, Built-in swimming pools |
| PT WAS DOING WATER AEROBICS IN A BUILT IN GROUND SWIMMING POOL STRAINED LEFT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2004 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| PT SUST SPRAIN TO LOWER LEG WHILE EXERCISING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2004 | Age: 51 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: Exercise |
| PT COMPLAINING OF CALF PAIN. ADMITS TO NEW START OF AEROBIC ACTIVITY IN PAST WEEK. D: LEG PAIN, CONCERN FOR DVT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2004 | Age: 52 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: Exercise |
| CALF STRAIN - 52 YOM WAS RUNNING IN THE PARK AND BEGAN C/O PAIN RIGHT C ALF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2004 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Female | 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: Exercise |
| PT DOING AEROBICS, LANDED WRONG AND FELT POP IN CALF. PAIN IN CALF. D: ACHILLES STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2004 | Age: 73 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Exercise |
| WHILE OUT WALKING FELL DX: FRACTURE LT. TIBIA/ FIBULA |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/20/2004 | Age: 57 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: Exercise |
| POP IN LEG WHILE WALKING CALF STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/17/2004 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| PT INJURED LEG DOING PHYSICAL THERAP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2004 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Exercise |
| PT SLIPPED WHILE HIKING STRUCK SHIN HAS CT TO LEFT LOWER LEG LEFT SHIN LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/19/2004 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| PT STRAINED LEG WHEN RUNNING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2004 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Exercise |
| RT ACHILLES STRAIN, WALKING FOR EXERCISE AT ***** MALL, SWELLING BOTH ANKLES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2004 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Exercise |
| ANIMAL BITE - 52 YOM WAS JOGGING THIS MORNING WHEN HE WAS BITTEN ON HIS RIGHT LOWER LEG BY A DOG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/26/2004 | Age: 71 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Exercise |
| PT WAS EXERCISING AND HURT LEG DX: LEFT LOWER LEG PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2004 | Age: 55 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: Hematoma |
| Product: Exercise |
| CALF HEMATOMA-NOTICE PAIN WHILE JOGGING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/07/2004 | Age: 84 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: Exercise |
| PT WALKS A MILE A DAY WHILE DOING HIS EXERCISE WALK FELT A POP IN LEFT LOWER LEG STRAINED LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/06/2004 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Exercise |
| WHILE OUT WALKING FELL ON CEMENT DX: AVULSION FRACTURE LT. FIBULA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/13/2004 | Age: 74 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Exercise |
| RT FIBULA FRACTURE.PT HAD HAD SURGERY AND WAS IN REHAB EXERCISING AND T WISTED LEG AND FELT A SNAP AND PAIN IN LOWER LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2004 | Age: 60 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: Other |
| Product: Exercise |
| PT BEEN DOING EXERCISE AGGRESSIVELY. RT CALF & FOOT PAIN & NUMBNESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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