Estudo epidemiológico da entorse de tornozelo em atletas de voleibol de alto rendimento / Epidemiological study on ankle sprains with high performance volleyball athletes

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The purpose of this research is to characterize the last ankle sprain episode occurred with volleyball high performance athletes. From January 2003 to March 2004, 114 male athletes from 9 adult category teams of the Special and First Division of São Paulo State Volleyball Championship participated of this study. From the 114 athletes analyzed, 21 have reported no ankle sprains, thus, the last 93 episodes of ankle sprain from 93 athletes were analysed following exclusion criteria. They have been individually interviewed by the researcher, following a pre-established questionnaire. A meaningful difference was found in the correlation between the competition phase and the ankle sprain cause, as well as, in the relation between the athlete?s acting position and the movement made at the injury moment. Despite the other items proposed in the objectives have not presented any significant difference, the results indicated that 74,2% of the injuries occurred due the inversion mechanism and most of the repeated ankle sprains have also occurred during this movement. The opposite position was the most affected and the blocking movement was the one that caused the most injuries. As regards the possible causes of the injuries, most of the sprains occurred when a second athlete was involved and most of them during the training period. Concerning prevention, the use of the safety protection, such as orthesis, has increased reaching 68,9% of the total athletes.

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ankle traumatismos do tornozelo/epidemiologia traumatismos em atletas sports homens sprains and strains/epidemiology esportes ankle injuries/epidemiology athletic injuries men entorses e distensões/epidemiologia tornozelo

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