Title: Prevalence and Pattern of Sports Injuries among the University Students of Physical Education, Southern India
Authors: Indira.N.C, Annie.I.K, A.J.W.Felix
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v4i10.107
Background: Sports is a common recreational activity. Besides keeping the physical and mental well being, participation in sports has many advantages like decreasing obesity, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and diabetes mellitus. However, injury risk is considered as an adverse outcome, particularly among physical education trainee students. They have increased chance of getting injuries as their curriculum requires intense training on the techniques and the skills. Objective: To assess the prevalence and pattern of sports injuries among physical education students of Annamalai University, Tamil nadu, India. Methodology: Cross sectional study was conducted among the physical education teacher education (PETE) students by using pretested questionnaire. Participants were undergraduate and postgraduate students of the university. Data were analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 17. Results: Out of 200 students assessed, 96 had got injured in the preceding six months with the prevalence rate of 48%. Among the injuries, lower limb (60.3%) was the commonest region affected. Among the 13 type of sports, volley ball (21.7%) and kabadi (21.7%) were the commonest games in which injury occurred. Majority of the injury type observed was contusion (21.1%) followed by ankle sprain (20.5%), strain (14.9%) and ligament tear (14.3%). Conclusion: This study shows that almost half of the students of physical education had injury in the preceding 6 months which may affect their training and curriculum participation. There is a need for proper preventive measures to be undertaken to keep the injury risk low among these students. Keywords: PETE students, sports, injury, knee and ankle. 1. Conn JM,Annest JL Gilchrist J. Sports and recreation related injury episodes in US population1997-1999. Inj prevention. 2003 ;9:117-123 2. HergenroederAC.Prevention of sports injuries.Paediatrics1998;101:1057-1063 3. ShanmugamC,MafulliN.Sports injuries in children. Br Med Bull . 2008;86:33-57 4. Knowles SB, Marshall SW, Bowling JM, Loomis D, Milikan R, et. al. A prospective study of injury incidence among North Carolina high school athletes. Am J Epidemiol. 2006; 164: 1209-1221. 5. Ingram JG, Fields SK, Yard EE, Comstock RD. Epidemiology of knee injuries among boys and girls in US high school athletics. Am J Sports Med. 2008; 36: 1116-1122. 6. Bruno Berbert Rosa and et. al. Epidemiology of sports injuries on collegiate athletes at a single center. ActaortopediaBrasilaira. 22(6). 7. Stevenson MR, Hamer P, Finch CF, Elliot B, Kresnow M. Sports, age, and sex specific incidence of sports injuries in Western Australia. Br J Sports Med. 2000; 34: 188-194 8. Ying Zhao. Study on Sports Injuries among College Students in Wuhan. Advances in Physical Education. 2013; 3(2):89-91. 9. Swarup Mukherjee. Sports Injuries in University Physical Education Teacher Education Students: A Prospective Epide-miological Investigation. JJ Sports Med. 2014; 1(2):006. 10. M.K.Jui Ray and M.Kohandel. Epidemio-logy of some sports injuries among physical education college stud-ents. Injury Prevention. 2010; 16(1):A128-A129. 11. Flicinski. J. Occurrence and risk factors of musculoskeletal pain and sport injuries in students of physical education in University of Szczecin. Ann Acad Med Stetin. 2008; 54(3): 31-47. 12. Goosens L, Verrelst R, Cardon G, De Clercq D. Sports injuries in physical education teacher education students. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2013. 13. Cromwell F, Walsh J, Gormley J. A pilot study examining injuries in elite gaelic footballers. Br J Sports Med. 2000; 34: 104-108. 14. Van Gent RN, Siem D, van Middelikoop M, van Os AG, Biema-Zeinstra SM. et. al. Incidence and determinants of lower extremity running injuries in long distance runners: a systematic review. Br J Sports Med. 2007; 41: 469-480. 15. Dustin Nabhan, Taylor Walden, Jenna Street, Heather Linden, Bill Moreau. Sports injury and illness epidemiology during the 2014 Youth Olympic Games: United States Olympic Team Surveillance. Br.J. Sports Medicine. 2016; 0:1-6. 16. Faude O, Robler R, Junge A. Football injuries in children and adolescent players: are there clues for prevention?. Sports Med. 2013. 43: 819-837. 31 Bruno Berbert Rosa and et. al. Epidemiology of sports injuries on collegiate athletes at a single center. Actaortopedia Brasilaira. 22(6). 17. Varun Kumar, AbhaMangal, GeetaYadav, Deepak K. Raut, Saudan Singh. Prevalence and pattern of sports injuries among college students in Delhi, India. Saudi Journal of sports medicine. 2014;14(2):109-113.Abstract
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