An Analytic Study of Recurrent Sport Injuries and their Causes

Abstract

The aim of this study was an analytic study of recurrent sport injuries and their causes, aged 15-30 years. A sample of 130 injured players from the Babylon province population such as Babylon, Madhatiya, Hilla, AL – Hashimiya, ALuashru, Al shumalie , Al kifl , Al baladie, Al mssayab, Assedda and Huttien of football , hand ball weight lifting , Body building activities participated in this recurrent sport injuries investigation study. Doctors and researcher managements completed reports detailing the number of recurrent sport injuries and provided specific information about each patient. During the period of the study, 130 recurrent sport injury reports were completed. The frequency of sports injuries was highest in the muscular tears then the ligatures tears. The leading causes of sports injuries in players were: falls, crushed by object, wrong worm up, high effort, lake of feed, collision with other person and slips. Muscular tear injuries were the most common diagnoses (27.65%). Football, handball and weightlifting were the most frequent sport activities for injuries. Bodybuilding shows high frequency in ligatures tears with slighter difference than muscular tears. Reports based surveillance systems can be successfully used to conducts sport injury surveillance among players. Data collected through such systems can be used to calculate sports injury rates, to describe patterns of sport injury and to identify risk factors for players related sport injuries. In conclusion, the results provide necessary information to improve prevention interventions to decrease the number of sport injuries which are common, for example, (muscle tear, ligature tear, spasm,, disjoint, fracture, cartilage) respectively, and most common causes for air injuries are hitting another player and or lack of qualifications. In addition to most common causes of anaerobic activities are absence of warming- up and bad apparatus and tools.