issueWhat ten years of kicks does

ผลของการรับแรงสิบปี · phon khong kan rap raeng sip pi

80 to 90 percent of injuries are soft tissue. The ones that are not are the point.

What it is

Injury rates, what they are made of, and the part of the question that is not settled.

The long version

Soft tissue is 80 to 90 percent of all injuries — repeated trauma to the parts that have no padding, in a sport with almost none. Sprains and strains come next, and the article notes that many of those follow an inadequate warm-up, which is an avoidable category. Fractures are third, and they rise with level: nose, carpals, metacarpals, fingers, ribs.

Beginners get hurt more often than professionals and less seriously. As a fighter moves up, the padding comes off and the forces go up.

And the under-reporting is structural. The article lists why a fighter does not report an injury: not noticing, refusing to admit it, a raised pain threshold, fear of what the instructor will think, and confusion about what counts as an injury at all.

Inference — the numbers for cumulative head trauma in adult muay thai are not in the literature the way they are for American football. What exists is the child-boxing research. Absence of a study is not absence of an effect, and this project does not have the study either way.

Connected to

• Children in the ring Where the research is.
• Your first session What a beginner is walking into.

Named here by

• Sparring Why the contact is light.
• Children in the ring The measurement.

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