Abstract

This study aims to provide basic data for middle and high school elite handball athletes to investigate and analyze injury areas, injury tissues, and causes of injury during training and competition considering the characteristics of technical movements by position. 111 middle and high school elite handball athletes (15 pivot(PV), 16 center back(CB), 21 left winger(LW), 14 right winger(RW), 12 left back(LB), 16 right back(RB), 17 goalkeeper(GK)) registered in Korean Sport & Olympic Committee who surveyed. The positions that showed the most injury during the competition were CB (43 cases), GK (27 cases), and PV (24 cases). For CB positions, it was shown as fingers (13.95%), face, knee, and ankle (9.30%), for GK positions, it was shown as elbow, wrist, finger, and ankle (11.11%), and for PV positions, it was shown as face, knee, and ankle (12.50%). The positions that showed the most injury during training were GK (37 cases), CB (36 cases), and PV (31 cases). In the GK position, ankle (21.62%), wrist (10.81%), and face, waist, and hip (8.11%), in the CB position, knee (16.67%), finger (13.89%), and ankle (8.33%), in the PV position, ankle (19.35%), finger, and knee (16.13%). The positions that showed the most injury tissues during the competition were CB position, it was found to be skin (35.14%), muscle and ligaments (16.22%), in the GK position, bone and ligaments (28.57%) and muscle (17.86%) and in the LW position, it was found to be ligaments (44.00%), muscle (20.00%), and skin (16.00%). The positions that showed the most injury tissues during the training were LW positions were ligament (44.12%), bone (26.47%), and tendon (14.71%), CB positions were skin (30.30%), tendon (21.21%), ligament (18.18%), ligament (26.67%), muscle (23.33%), and GK positions were ligament (3.67%), and skin (10.3%). Due to the nature of the handball sport, the risk of occurrence should be reduced by combining injury prevention training with sports that show landing after jumping, instantaneous change of direction, fast sprint, contact between athletes, and high intensity movements. Therefore, it is thought that middle and high school elite handball athletes need to develop a injury prevention program to prevent injury and improve their performance before going to the stage of chronic injury.

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