INJURIES
IN SPORTSA
PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF TEAM
SPORTS ATHLETE'S AWARENESS OF INJURY PREVENTION STRATEGIES
Mohsen
Ghaforian1,
Nader Rahnama 2, Mehdi Kargarfard 3,
Ebrahim Banitalebi4
1Sama
Organization (affiliated with Islamic Azad University) - Shiraz Branch,
2
Physical Education & Sport Science College, Isfahan University,
3Shahrekord
University, Shahrekord,
4Islamic
Azad University of Shahrekord Branch, Iran
Introduction. The
Purpose of this study was a preliminary assessment of team sports
athletes' awareness of injury prevention strategies.
Method.
Present
research method is descriptive and survey. The research society is
included all men athletes students who participate in team sports in
8th sport-student Olympiad. The sampling design is randomize. The
sample is included 280 people between these people. The instrument for
collecting information is the questionnaire which was done by the
researcher. For data analysis inferential statistic (t- test and ANOVA)
and descriptive statistic is used.
Results. The weakest
awareness four team sport (handball, basketball, volleyball and
football) is relate to diet suggestion before and after competition
training. Also, the weakest performance is related to cooling down
after competition and weakly training of flexibility and strength in
form of team or single training. The correlation between athletes
awareness and performance of injury prevention strategies in four
sports team i(0/44) (p≤ 0/01). The ranking of injury mechanism
in four sports shows the injury potential in handball, basketball and
volleyball at the time of landing on one foot and in football at the
time of tackling. Also, ranking of injury sports on the body shows that
the most injury potential in four sports is considered to ankle and
knee.
Conclusion.
There are major problems in awareness and performance of athletes in
respect to prevention of injury. These problems are more specific using
protective equipments, cooling down, flexibility and strength training
and dietary habits of athlete, before and after physical training. The
correlation between awareness and performance in athletes shows that
the more awareness of injury prevention strategies, the more
performance and reversal. Actually, if athletes awareness of injury
prevention strategies. Increases, a lot of problems in peripheral due
to injuries like being away of sports events and injury treatment cost
will reduce. Also it is important to concentrate on injury prevention
strategies in respect to injury mechanisms in handball, basketball and
volleyball in landing after jumping, in football in tackling and in
regard body parts respect to injury marks and injury factors in ankle
and knee.
Key
words: injury, awareness, team sports, injury mechanism,
prevention strategies.
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