Prevalence and Pattern of Sports Injuries among the University Students of Physical Education, Southern India
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 10
Abstract
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
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Indira. N. C
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