Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine dominant hand usage and detect the injury regions in racket sports. A total of 98 athletes, of which 37 (37.8%) are female, 61 (62.2%) are male, studying at 11 different universities and attending competitions with schools teams with an average age of 21.11±1.66, height of 1.71±0.08 cm, weight of 64.92±10.85 kg, and BMI of 22.00±2.41(kg/m2) have participated in the study. When it comes to the distribution of the athletes by branches, the sample consists of 22 table tennis players, 24 badminton players, 25 tennis players and 27 squash players. The "Edinburgh Inventory Hand Preference Survey" was used as a data collection tool to determine the hand preferences of the athletes. In the determination of sports injuries suffered by athletes, the Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire was administered. There are significant differences between the lefty and righty athletes in terms of injuries in the left shoulder, left wrist and right lower leg regions when the injury regions in racket sports are compared by hand preferences (p<0.05). It is seen that the injuries that occur in right forearm, left wrist and the right upper leg regions of the athletes of racket sports differ according to branches (p<0.05). When the injury regions are examined according to hand preferences, it is seen that the injuries in the left shoulder, left wrist and lower right leg regions occur more in lefty athletes in comparison to righty athletes. When the relationship between the injury region regions and sports branches is examined, it can be argued that table tennis players suffer more frequent injuries in the left wrist compared to the players of other branches.
Highlights
There are three sport branches in our country which are expressed as racket sports and have federations
A total of 98 athletes, of which 37 (37.8%) are female, 61 (62.2%) are male, studying at 11 different universities and attending competitions with schools teams with an average age of 21.11±1.66, height of 1.71±0.08 cm, weight of 64.92±10.85 kg, and Body Mass Index (BMI) of 22.00±2.41 have participated in the study. When it comes to the distribution of the athletes by branches, the sample consists of 22 table tennis players, badminton players, tennis player and 27 squash players
When the injury regions are examined according to the hand preference, it is seen that the injuries in the left shoulder, left wrist and lower right leg regions, occur more in lefty athletes than righty athletes
Summary
There are three sport branches in our country which are expressed as racket sports and have federations. These are sports branches that could be performed and watched by everyone as performance sports and leisure time sports. The activities of these three branches, tennis, table tennis and badminton, with federations are carried out by the coordination of the Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports with federations under the roof of the General Directorate of Youth and Sports (Kuter et al, 2006). Tennis is one of the categories of racquet sports that attract people of all kinds, recreational or professional and constantly growing in the world (Alp et al, 2016).Tennis is a sport which is played on a plain and hard surface with a racket by hitting a felting mantled ball over a 91 cm high net stretched in the middle of the court (Arslan, 2009)
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