The Justin Sportsmedicine Team has selected DJO Incorporated as an official medical supplier.
From its modest beginnings from the back of a pickup
truck at 10 Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association
(PRCA) sanctioned rodeos and just 775 contestants
treated in 1981, the Justin Sportsmedicine Team currently
provides service to over 125 PRCA rodeos annually,
while treating some 6,000 rodeo related injuries and
illnesses.
Bull riding has been the event in which most athletes
are injured, followed by bareback riding and saddle
bronc riding.
The knee is the most often injured anatomical site
in calf roping, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding,
and among bullfighters/clowns. The majority
of these injuries involve running, planting the foot,
or landing on the ground. Bull riders are more
likely to sustain injuries to their head or face,
commonly from colliding with the head or horns of
the bull. Bareback bronc riders injure their
shoulders, hands and elbows, in that order, because
of the tremendous stresses on the riding arm.
Last Updated: 1/4/2008
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