Horse riding – related injuries from the point of view of a neurosurgeon

Siedlecki Zygmunt, Szafrańska Małgorzata, Główczewska-Siedlecka Emilia, Śniegocki Maciej. Horse riding – related injuries from the point of view of a neurosurgeon. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2022;12(1):274-282. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2022.12.01.23 https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2022.12.01.023 https://zenodo.org/record/5907909 The journal has had 40 points in Ministry of Education and Science of Poland parametric evaluation. Annex to the announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of December 21, 2021. No. 32343. Has a Journal's Unique Identifier: 201159. Scientific disciplines assigned: Physical Culture Sciences (Field of Medical sciences and health sciences); Health Sciences (Field of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences). Punkty Ministerialne z 2019 - aktualny rok 40 punktów. Załącznik do komunikatu Ministra Edukacji i Nauki z dnia 21 grudnia 2021 r. Lp. 32343. Posiada Unikatowy Identyfikator Czasopisma: 201159. Przypisane dyscypliny naukowe:Nauki o kulturze fizycznej (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu); Nauki o zdrowiu (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu). © The Authors 2022; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.01.2022. Revised: 17.01.2022. Accepted: 26.01.2022. Horse riding – related injuries from the point of view of a neurosurgeon Zygmunt Siedlecki1, Małgorzata Szafrańska2, Emilia Główczewska-Siedlecka3, and Maciej Śniegocki1 Department of Neurosurgery, Neurotraumatology and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Department of Geriatric, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Corresponding address: Dr. med. Zygmunt Siedlecki Department of Neurosurgery, Neurotraumatology and Pediatric Neurosurgery, the Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, ul. Skłodowskiej-Curie 9 85-094 Bydgoszcz tel.: + 48 606 302 680 e-mail: siedlecki@cm.umk.pl Abstract Horse riding (equestrianism) is a very old form of physical activity, and today it has become a very popular sport and recreation. Similarly to other sports, equestrianism carries potential risk of injuries, most often caused by a fall from a horse back. Horse riding can cause spine and brain injuries, which are treated by neurosurgeons. Both brain and spine injuries can potentially be life - threatening or cause severe disability. In our neurosurgical center, horse - related injuries accounted for 7.69% of all sports - related injuries. We treated 4 girls in total: 3 with spinal injuries, 1 with brain injuries. Girls with spine injuries were treated conservatively, and girls with brain injuries - surgically. All patients had good prognosis. We have reviewed the literature about horse - related trauma. Literature showed that they occurred more often in young age patients and mainly in girls, which was consistent with our observations. Numerous authors emphasized the protecting role helmets. The authors emphasized the key role of education and proper care of coach. Although the literature described some fatal horse - related injuries, in our material all patients were healed and returned to a perfect clinical state. Key words: horse riding, injury, sport, neurosurger