ARTICLE –
abstractEffects
of overstress in competitive athletes - aspects on the incidence of
shoulder and ankle thrauma in volleyball and basketball Elena Doina Mircioagă1,
Maria Mogoşanu1, Anca Tudor1,
Alexandra Mircioaga2 1“Victor
Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara 2University
of the West Timisoara, Physical Education and Sports Department
Abstract
An
injury, irrespective of its cause, may be of critical consequence in a
sportsman’s life. Overuses disorders are repetitive
lessions caused by overstress. They are located at the musculo-skeletal
level and affect competitive sportsmen typically. Such lesions occur
when a biological tissue (muscle, bone, tendon, ligament etc.) is
stressed beyond its physical limits. The pathology
of the
locomotor system in general and the pathology of overstress in
particular have increased constantly in the past years, due to a series
of extrinsic and intrinsic factors.The aim of this study is to compare
the incidence of musculo-skeletal thraumas of joints (shoulder, knee,
ankle), in competitive volleyball players with the incidence of the
same injuries in basketball players in 2006-2008. Thrauma incidence in
volleyball and basketball is high, the shoulder, the knee and the ankle
being the most affected segments of the body. Material
and methods:
this article contains only part of the results that were recorded and
interpreted after studying 88 players (two batches, 40 volleyball
players and 48 basketball players) of the volleyball and basketball
teams in Timisoara and Lugoj, from August 2006 to May 2008. The age
sportsmen 13- 42 years and their longevity in sports
practising was 4 -20 years.The current results continue the study
entitled Effects of Overstress in Competitive Sportsmen
(Jumper’s Knee Syndrome).The mean, the standard deviation and
the standard error of the mean were calculated for all numerical
parameters (age, longevity in sport practising, height, weight, BMI,
maximum number of thrauma per limb and total number of thrauma). The
sportsmen were examined clinically and imagistically (radiology,
ultrasound scan and in several cases also MRI).The significance t-test
for independent samples was used to compare the values obtained for the
two batches.
Key
words:competitive
sportsmen, musculo-skeletal traumas, shoulder, ankle
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