Sports injury patterns among adolescent athletes
<p>This research has examined injury patterns among adolescent athletes in Malaysia. This</p><p>study aims to develop basis information data regarding injury patterns, so that supervision on</p><p>athletes health and development o...
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| Format: | thesis |
| Language: | eng |
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2013
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| Online Access: | https://ir.upsi.edu.my/detailsg.php?det=9172 |
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| Summary: | <p>This research has examined injury patterns among adolescent athletes in Malaysia. This</p><p>study aims to develop basis information data regarding injury patterns, so that supervision on</p><p>athletes health and development of effective future injury preventive program is warranted.</p><p>Research design used in this study was retrospective descriptive epidemiological study.</p><p>This research used convenience sampling method, which refer to the whole medical records from</p><p>sports medicine clinics of National Sports Institute (NSI) of Malaysia, to all athletes at the age</p><p>of 12 to 20 years old, involving in contact sports (CS) and non-contact sports (NCS), referring</p><p>data from 2008 to 2010. The data from this study is evaluated based on five research areas i.e.</p><p>nature of injury, body category, types of injury (acute or chronic), injury severity (mild,</p><p>moderate, severe) and identification types of sports (CS or NCS) that contributing to more</p><p>injuries. The descriptive statistic analysis (frequency and percentage distribution) is used to</p><p>analyze research variables. Results show elevated patterns for subsequent injury in CS and NCS, and</p><p>more than half (NCS, 60.5%; CS, 53.5%) of cases indicate athletes continuously meeting subsequent</p><p>injury after previous injury. Occurrence of lower limbs injuries is the highest (CS, 63%; NCS,</p><p>64.6%), followed by upper limbs injuries (CS, 18.1%; NCS, 18%), and injuries to the back (CS, 13%;</p><p>NCS, 14.3%). Acute injury is frequently reported higher occurrence than chronic injury. Sports</p><p>injury severity reported more mild (30%) and moderate (>50%) cases compared with severe in this</p><p>population, with NCS contributing more injuries (74.2%) than CS (25.8%). In short, injury patterns</p><p>are varied by sports. Sports governing bodies are responsible to provide an effective and</p><p>standardized surveillance for</p><p>better supervision on athletes health.</p><p></p> |
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