Meniscal injury is a common sports-related injury. Although numerous studies about meniscal injury have been reported, only a few studies have been conducted on meniscal injury in soccer players. ...This study was intended to evaluate the clinical outcomes after meniscal surgery in soccer players.This was a retrospective study on 33 knees of 32 soccer players who underwent arthroscopic meniscal surgery. All patients were men with a mean age of 19.1 years at the time of surgery. Medial and lateral meniscal injuries were diagnosed in 10 and 23 knees, respectively. The type of medial meniscal injury was a bucket-handle tear from the anterior horn to mid-portion in 9 cases, and a horizontal tear at the posterior horn in one case. Lateral meniscal tears were flap tears in the anterior horn to midbody in 6 cases who underwent partial meniscectomy, while meniscal repair was performed in the remaining cases (17 knees), with or without partial meniscectomy of the lateral meniscus. In terms of return to play, patients who underwent partial meniscectomy and meniscal repair needed 4.3 and 6.2 months, respectively.The present study demonstrated that longitudinal tears of the anterior horn of the medial and the lateral meniscus are a frequent type of injury.All patients could return to play and meniscal surgery yielded satisfactory outcomes in soccer players.
The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge of physical education students about sports injuries using the PRICES method at UPMI Medan. This research is a descriptive study, with data ...collection techniques using survey methods. The research instrument uses a knowledge test in the form of true-false. The population in this study was 40 students of the Physical Education Program. The data analysis technique used descriptive with percentage. The results showed that: very high category of 22.50% (9 people), high category of 35% (14 people), moderate category of 25% (10 people), low category of 13% (5 people), and very low by 5% (2 people). These results can be concluded that the knowledge of physical education program students about early handling of sports injuries using the PRICES (Protect Rest Ice Compression Elevation Support) method at UPMI Medan is in the high category.
We conducted a large-scale survey of sports injuries in college athletes. This study aimed to investigate trends in sports injuries and disabilities among college athletes by gender, discipline, ...individual and team competition, contact and noncontact competition, and other competition characteristics. A total of 1,137 college athletes (786 men and 351 women) were surveyed. A questionnaire survey was conducted to determine the club, regularity, and history of sports injuries and disorders (presence/absence, severity, time of injury, site of injury, diagnosis, and recurrence). The prevalence of sports injuries among college athletes was 59.7%. The prevalence was 74.7% in team and contact sports, with ankle and knee ligament injuries accounting for most injuries. The second highest prevalence rate was 66.7% for individual/contact sports, where martial arts-type sports are common. Elbow injuries were common due to the characteristics of martial arts-type sports. Chronic sports injuries of the ankle were common in noncontact/individual sports, and shoulder joint disorders were common in noncontact/team sports. Different trends in sports injuries and disabilities were found depending on the sport characteristics. Considering the characteristics of the sports is necessary to prevent sports injuries and disabilities.
High-level athletes participate in various events that need extreme fitness and stamina. Usually, after competitions, the athletes take part in systematic physical fitness and specialized skills ...training. The daily training sessions of an athlete are often of higher intensity level. This kind of long-term and high-intensity training affects an athlete both physically and mentally and overloads him/her, leading to sports injuries. As a result, an athlete is no longer capable to perform high-intensity training due to these injuries and unable to achieve the desired results in the competition. Therefore, the need for an intelligent system arises to evaluate, predict and detect sports injuries effectively. The significance of neural networks for target recognition motivates us to propose a novel dual-feature fusion neural network model for athlete injury estimation. Our proposed model solves the problem of feature loss by using a 1 × 1 convolution and hyperlink to form a dual-fusion structure to enhance effective discrimination. Multiple experiments have been performed using different classification models. The performance of the utilized models, including the proposed model, has been evaluated with the help of numerous performance evaluation metrics. Various preprocessing techniques have been used in this study. The proposed model attained an excellent classification accuracy of 97.0%, a sensitivity of 95.70%, and a specificity of 97.54%. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed model is much better than the rest of the classification models used in this study.
Athletics practiced at high intensity is a source of injuries because of constraints on musculo-skeletal structures. Social and health interests of physical activities amongst disabled patients are ...demonstrated. In the last few years, popularization of paralympic sports implies an increased number of participants and injuries. These injuries can have functional consequences and alter the quality of life. The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of para-athletics’ injuries during an entire sports season and to characterize them by types, location and modes of onset. Moreover, this study identifies risk factors and proposes a prevention program.
A cohort study was undertaken of 210 athletes, who took part in one of four french national competitions in the 2016–2017 para-athletics season. Data were collected with help of medical staff during the competitions and identified athletes’ impairments, location, type and mode of onset.
Prevalence of injuries during the 2016–2017 season was 19% (9,4 for 100 athlete-days). Athletes with visual impairments experienced the highest number of injuries (42,5%, 16,8 for 100 athlete-days) followed by amputee athletes (23,8%, 10,8 for 100 athletes-days). The large majority of the injuries affected the thigh (39%) and were muscle strains (56%).
This cohort study brings new data about para-athletics traumatology. Athletes with visual impairment experienced the highest rate of injuries and prevention programs must focus on hamstring strains.
QUESTIONWhat is the effect of injury prevention programs that include balance training exercises on the incidence of ankle injuries among soccer players? DESIGNSystematic review of randomised trials ...with meta-analysis. PARTICIPANTSSoccer players of any age, sex or competition level. INTERVENTIONSThe experimental intervention was an injury prevention program that included balance training exercises. The control intervention was the soccer team's usual warm-up program. OUTCOME MEASURESExposure-based ankle injury rates. RESULTSNine articles met the inclusion criteria. The pooled results of injury prevention programs that included balance training exercises among 4,959 soccer players showed a 36% reduction in ankle injury per 1,000 hours of exposure compared to the control group with an injury risk ratio (IRR) of 0.64 (95% CI 0.54 to 0.77). The pooled results of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) injury prevention programs caused a 37% reduction in ankle injury (IRR 0.63, 95% CI 0.48 to 0.84) and balance-training exercises alone cause a 42% reduction in ankle injury (IRR 0.58, 95% CI 0.41 to 0.84). CONCLUSIONSThis meta-analysis demonstrates that balance exercises alone or as part of an injury prevention program decrease the risk of ankle injuries. PROSPERO CRD42017054450.
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