Abstract

FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ, Agustín  and  BENITEZ GUARDIOLA, Ana Amalia. Is Boxing the sports of highest ocular injure frequency. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2006, vol.19, n.2. ISSN 0864-2176.

The ocular injure is any eye lesion caused by external factors that are not related to the patient`s disease. The most common causes are domestic, work accidents and sports practicing. In the particular case of boxing, there is a controversy in which some state that the modern medicine, the new refereeing rules and the novel training techniques, this sports is almost harmless to the individuals practicing it. Other people say that repeated traumas bring about brain injures responsible for neuropsychological decline of a great number of boxers. Twenty four international and one national (the only one so far published) papers were reviewed. Comparative studies among several sports 20 (80 %) are mentioned; it was observed that 17 (85 %) are sports where a great deal of severe ocular injures occur ( football, hockey and squash) ; however, boxing keeps low incidence if compared to these sports and others. According to the results achieved so gar, we may conclude that boxing has a low ocular injure incidence rate

Keywords : boxing; ocular injure; sports.