Sport injuries treated at a physiotherapy center specialized in sports

Abstract

Introduction: The risk of injuries related to physical activity and sports may increase if there is predisposition, inappropriate training and/or coach guidance, and absence of sports medicine follow-up. Objective: To assess the frequency of injuries in athletes treated at a physiotherapy center specialized in sports. Methods: For the data collection was carried out the survey of injuries in records of athletes treated in eight years of activities. The data collected included: characteristics of patients, sport, injury kind, injury characteristics and affected body part. Results: From 1090 patient/athlete records, the average age was 25 years old, the athletes were spread across 44 different sports modalities, being the great majority men (75%). The most common type of injury was joint injury, followed by muscular and bone injuries. Chronic injury was the most frequent (47%), while the most common body part injured was the knee, followed by ankle and shoulder. Among all the sports, soccer, futsal, and track and field presented the highest number of injured athletes, respectively. Conclusion: Soccer was the most common sport among the injured athletes, injury kind most frequent was joint injuries and knee was the body part most injured. Chronic injuries were the most common.

Injuries and complaints in the Brazilian national volleyball male team: a case study

“…The data for the present study were extracted from medical records, and the following data were analysed: (i) Number of injuries – an injury was defined as an injury event that caused the athlete to be away from their activities for at least one day [ 3 , 22 , 23 ]; (ii) Diagnostic characteristics of the injuries [ 22 ]; (iii) Time away from the activities caused by injuries; (iv) Severity of injuries categorised according to time of absence as light (1–7 days), moderate (8–28 days), and severe (over 29 days) [ 22 ]; (v) Number of complaints – a complaint was defined as any discomfort that did not lead the athlete to be absent from activities but required attention from the healthcare team [ 17 , 22 ] – in cases of complaints in a previously treated anatomical region, it was considered as a new complaint when the need for intervention occurred more than a week apart; (vi) Classification of complaints according to the affected structure in muscle, ligament, joint, tendon or bone [ 24 , 25 ]; (vii) Number of sessions carried out to treat complaints; (viii) Anatomical regions of injuries and complaints [ 22 , 24 , 26 ]; (ix) Total hours dedicated to training sessions and matches, which were obtained from the technical commission records; and (x) Characteristics of the athletes, including age, weight, height and position.…”