Sport injuries in athletes with visual disability / Lesões esportivas em atletas com deficiencia visual

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2010

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Most researches about sport injuries in disabled athletes use a cross-disability (physical and sensorial) design and merge different sport modalities in the same study. This procedure creates difficulties in interpreting the results, once different disabilities and modalities may cause different injury conditions. The purpose of this study was to analyse the sport injuries frequency in visually disabled athletes. Besides identifying the location of injury, the mechanism of injury, and the main injuries that affect these athletes, this study aims to trace the sports injuries characteristics for each modality, to verify if the visual class relates to the sport injury frequency. The subjects were male and female visually impaired athletes, members of the Brazilian team of athletics, soccer 5, goalball, judo, and swimming, who played in international competitions between 2004 and 2008. Data was collected using the Brazilian Paralympic Committee and the Brazilian Confederation of Sports for the Blind formulary, which included the following information: name, age, modality, competition, visual classification (B1, B2, B3), injury type, location of injury, and diagnosis. A total of 131 athletes participated in this study: 42 female, 89 male, 61 were B1, 46 B2, and 24 B3. From this total, 102 athletes reported 288 sport injuries; 2,82 injuries per athlete. Judo presented more injuries per athlete, followed by soccer 5, athletics, goalball, and swimming. Female athletes presented more injuries than male athletes, however this showed no statistical significance. Regarding visual classification, B1 athletes got more injuries than B2 athletes, and these more than B3 athletes; statistically significant difference was found only between B1 and B3 group. As one group, athletes presented similar values between accident and overuse injuries, but these values change when modalities are individually evaluated. Soccer 5 and judo sustained more accident injuries; athletics and swimming presented more overuse injuries; and goalball presented similar values between accident and overuse injuries. Concerning the body segment, lower limbs showed more injuries, followed by upper limbs, spine, head, and trunk. These values also changed when modalities were individually evaluated. Soccer 5 and athletics had most injuries in lower limbs; swimming in spine and upper limb; goalball and judo presented similar values in upper and lower limbs. Twenty-one diagnoses were reported, being tendinoses, contractures, and contusions the most frequent. These diagnoses also change when modalities are individually evaluated.

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atletas - ferimentos e lesões disabled portadores de deficiencia visual traumatismos em atletas visually impaired persons athletic injuries

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