Elit Güreşçilerde Spor Yaralanma Öyküsü ve Spor Yaralanma Kaygı Düzeylerinin Araştırılması: Betimsel Araştırma

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of the study was to investigate the sports injury history that occurred during the competition and the training, and anxiety of sports injury in elite wrestlers. Material and Methods: This study was conducted a total of 172 who young wrestlers including 72 females (age: 19±0.85 years; height: 167.83±4.18 cm; body mass: 67±9.58 kg) and 100 males (age: 19±0.83 years; height: 176.92±7.91 cm; body mass: 73±13.32 kg). Ethics committee approval was obtained before the study. In this study, as a data collection tool was used the Sports Injury Anxiety Scale and athlete information form including training experience, wrestling style, the environment in which the injury occurred, rapid weight loss, injured region, etc. As statistical analysis one-way ANOVA test was used for independent groups and Pearson correlation. Results: The study results demonstrated that female wrestlers had higher injury rates including shoulder and elbow and forearm compared to male wrestlers and male freestyle wrestlers had higher anxiety levels for experiencing pain and re-injury anxiety levels compared to female wrestlers (p<0.05). It was found that the rapid weight loss was performed at the rate of 98.6% and 85% in female and male wrestlers respectively. There was a weak negative correlation was seen between the number of weight loss and the experiencing pain (p<0.05). Conclusion: These results confirmed that freestyle wrestlers experienced the anxiety level more than female and Greco-Roman wrestlers.