Psychological aspects in Handball Injuries

Weber, Johanna; Wegner, Manfred

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-55892-8_45

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“…According to these findings and other similar studies [8][9][10][11][12], the most common injuries in professional handball are sprains, and the most prolonged absences from training and competitions are caused by knee injuries, which can last ≤10 months (practically the whole season). Studies in modern professional sports [4][5][6] present social support as an important factor for a faster injury recovery process.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…In the social support part, following the methodology applied in some previous research studies [18,24], the authors used and adapted some questions from the Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ) [18], which is a quantitative and psychometrically sound questionnaire that was approved for public release in 1981. Some other ance this stress in the last few decades by contributing to the optimization of injury prevention [7][8][9][10] and injury recovery with intense research [2][3][4]6,8,[11][12][13]. Since professional handball is one of the sports with the highest injury risk [6,7,9,12,[14][15][16], there is an increased focus on prevention training, especially in female handball, which has several specific features, from differences in the body composition and motor abilities to different emotional reactions [6,9,14].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Occupational specifics of elite female handball players in relation to injury recovery, social support and environmental factors

Bon¹,

Doupona²

2021

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Occupational specifics of elite female handball players in relation to injury recovery, social support and environmental factors

Bon¹,

Doupona²

2021

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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“…In handball, right-handed players are often put on the left side of the court and lefthanders on the right, since this leads to optimal angles when shooting at the goal (Oberbeck, 1989;Pohn, 2009). Amongst female German players, the percentages of handedness differed from the female population, and the percentages of handedness per position varied (Weber, 2018). In the same study, motivational differences according to handedness were found.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…Goulet, Bard & Fleury (1989) mention visual perception (also: Hagemann, 2009;Loffing, Schorer, Hagemann & Baker, 2012;McMorris & Colenso, 1996;Schorer et al, 2012). Neuropsychological disposition is also mentioned (Boulinguez, 1999), next to differences regarding volition, motivation, and disposition for action (Weber, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Are There Connections Between Handedness, Competitive Results and Motivation in Wheel Gymnasts?

Weber

2022

SGJ

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Handedness is a performance-influencing factor in many competitive sports. In female team handball, psychological factors such as motivation have been connected to handedness. It should be researched whether this is also the case in wheel gymnastics and whether motivation is related to performance or handedness. For this purpose, 203 German wheel gymnasts were studied. There are significant differences in motivational aspects between gymnasts of different handedness within the straight line discipline. No differences were found in the all-around. There were not enough cases of gymnasts competing in spiral or vault only. When comparing the prevalence of different types of handedness in the general population to those among wheel gymnasts, no specific evaluation could be conducted for male gymnasts due to too few cases, although it should be noted that all 13 male participants were right-handed. When comparing the percentages of the left-handed and ambidextrous among female gymnasts to those in the general female population, it is evident that there is a higher percentage of ambidexters and left-handers among wheel gymnasts than in the general female population. There are differences in the percentages of female gymnasts of different handedness competing in straight line and all-around. There are correlations between percentage of handedness and competitive results when considering quintiles of competitive results (e. g. r = 0.949 and p ≤ 0.014 for technical difficulty in left-handed athletes). Our results suggest that it might be necessary to consider handedness when it comes to individual coaching and selection.

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“…Some previous studies have focused on such change of direction movements in handball ( Massuça et al, 2014 ; Pereira et al, 2018 ; Wagner et al, 2019 ). However, it is unclear how the unilateral dominance in handball, i.e., use of mainly one arm for throwing and passing ( Weber and Wegener, 2019 ), influences the ability of players to change the direction. We conducted a field study to investigate if there are any differences in speed during an orthogonal change of direction action between left and right independent of the arm dominance.…”

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Effects of Arm Dominance and Decision Demands on Change of Direction Performance in Handball Players

Fasold

Braun

Klatt

2022

Journal of Human Kinetics

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This field study investigated the effect of unilateral dominance (handedness of players) on the change of direction speed in a specific cutting manoeuvre with a ball (in the direction of the throwing arm vs. against the direction of the throwing arm) in team handball. In addition, the effect of a cutting manoeuvre in response to an immediate stimulus compared to one planned in advance on the movement speed was analysed. Forty participants (22 male, 18 female, Mage 23 years) performed change of direction actions to the left and the right side (the direction of the throwing arm vs. against the direction of the throwing arm) under planned and reactive (light as visual stimuli) conditions. Change of direction speed was measured post-hoc by video-analyses. The results showed two effects. First, the decision demand in reaction to a visual stimulus reduced the speed in the change of direction compared to the planned action. Second, participants performed their action faster in the direction of the throwing arm than against it. The results replicate the effects of decision demands of previous studies and regardless of the reaction to the stimuli being unspecific, further studies could investigate if specific training can reduce the speed loss due to decision demands. The lateral speed differences of cutting manoeuvres of handball players have been analysed for the first time in this study. This effect could have several causes (e.g., coordination, power, motivation) which should be investigated in future studies in more detail.

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Psychological aspects in Handball Injuries

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References 30 publications

Occupational specifics of elite female handball players in relation to injury recovery, social support and environmental factors

Occupational specifics of elite female handball players in relation to injury recovery, social support and environmental factors

Are There Connections Between Handedness, Competitive Results and Motivation in Wheel Gymnasts?

Effects of Arm Dominance and Decision Demands on Change of Direction Performance in Handball Players

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