Table 3 A distribution of the causes of the various musculoskeletal injuries as diagnosed
From: Causes, trends and severity of musculoskeletal injuries in Ghana
Diagnosis | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cause of injury (N = 269) | Fracture (n = 132) | Arthritis (n = 32) | Dislocation (n = 27) | Back pain (n = 40) | Ligament injury (n = 18) | Amputation (n = 6) | Tendon injury (n = 14) |
Fall (n = 68) | 36(27.3) | 4(12.5) | 12(44.4) | 12(30) | - | - | 4(28.6) |
Assault (n = 2) | - | 2(6.3) | - | - | - | - | - |
Vehicular crash (n = 113) | 90(68.2) | 4(12.5) | 15(55.6) | - | - | 2(33.3) | 2(14.3) |
Gunshot (n = 6) | 4(3.0) | - | - | 2(5) | - | - | - |
Others (n = 80) | 2(1.5) | 22(68.8) | - | 26(65) | 18(100) | 4(66.7) | 8(57.1) |