Abstract
Numerous injuries occur each year caused by sports, resulting in decreased physical activity and work time lost in addition to substantial medical costs. Prevention and intervention have become focal points for researchers and clinicians. Due to the lack of evidence related to injury patterns among Perak athletes in Malaysia for entire contact-sports, risks of injury cannot truly been identified. Thus, the purpose of this study is to identify the injury profile of contact-sports for Perak athletes, and to determine the injuries pattern among the athletes. In the same time, suggesting injury prevention strategies in order to reduce the risks of injury. Descriptive research design is utilized in this study. There were 533 Perak athletes from seven contact-sports i.e hockey, judo, karate, taekwondo, silat, tinju and wushu participated in this study. There were 105 athletes who reported injured were recruited and completed the self-administered questionnaire. The data is examined based on the research questions: a) common types of injuries, b) common body locations of injuries and c) common risk factors of injuries. The descriptive statistics i.e. frequency and percentage were utilized to analyze the research variables. The study findings indicated that muscles cramp, sprain and strain were the most common types of injuries. The reflection of intensity of physical interactions involved in the sporting activities becomes the common causes of different types of injuries. While lower extremities i.e ankle, knee and thigh became the common body locations of injuries. Opponent was found as major risk factor to injury. This study suggesting that the injury prevention strategies should focus on proper stretching during warm-up, ensure the training volume, proper landing techniques, ensure the injured athletes receive adequate rehabilitation, implementation of injury prevention programming, rules changes and emphasize on effective equipment. In conclusion, this injury profile is able to provide sufficient information in reducing and preventing injury occurrence thus helps maintaining athlete’s health at optimum level.
Highlights
In recent year, the sport has become famous throughout the country but this phenomenon causes the more injury risk to be exposed to the athletes
The data is beneficial to athletes and the coaches to realize what are the injury risk factors to help in injury prevention
The results showed that muscle cramp as the most common types of injuries (25.4%) followed by sprains (16.5%), strains (15.3%), abrasion (14.4), laceration (12.3%), fracture (5.9%), tendon strain (3.4%), dislocation (2.1%), shin splint (2,1%), tendonitis (0.85%), bursitis (0.85%), nerve injury (0.42%) and contusion (0.42%)
Summary
The sport has become famous throughout the country but this phenomenon causes the more injury risk to be exposed to the athletes. Participation in sport provides health, social benefit, and causes an innate risk of injury exists. Numerous injuries occur each year caused by sports, resulting in decreased physical activity and work time lost in addition to substantial medical costs. Strength and conditioning coach, physiotherapist, sports nutritionist, sports massage therapist and applied exercise physiologist have to aware of the risk factors that cause injury in sports, in contactsports. The data is beneficial to athletes and the coaches to realize what are the injury risk factors to help in injury prevention.
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