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- Title
Amatör ve profesyonel futbolcuların alt ekstremite yaralanmalarının araştırılması.
- Authors
Yamaner, Faruk; İmamoğlu, Osman; Güllü, Abdullah; Güler, Dursun; Gümüş, Mustafa; Akalın, Cem Tevfik; Kartal, Alparslan
- Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this investigation was to fix injuries of lower extremities of amateur and professional soccer players and to investigate relation of between injuries area. Methods: This investigation was constructed over the 96 amateur and 98 professional soccer players at the end of 2005-2006 football season with another questionnaire which was examination of injuries. Results: Findings in this investigation that many lower extremity injuries were 16.6% sprains, 15.7% tendon-connective tissue injuries and 12.5% muscle damages. Amateur soccer players' strains were first level with 17.1% and their fractures were second level with 15.5%. Professional soccer players' tendon-connective tissue injuries were first level with 19.0% and followed up this sequence were sprain, muscle damage and muscle strain. Annual ratio of lower extremity injuries were found that totally for each soccer players was 4.57, for amateur soccer players were 5.16 and for Professional soccer players were 3.98. Conclusion: It can be said that, amateur and professional soccer players were exposed to many lower extremity injuries; amateur soccer players were exposed to many lower extremity injuries than the professional soccer players; those injuries were sprains, tensiles, strains, contusions and they were occurred mostly in the course of competitions.
- Subjects
SOCCER injuries; FOOTBALL injuries; SOCCER players; SPORTS injuries; SPRAINS
- Publication
Journal of General Medicine / Genel Tıp Dergisi, 2009, Vol 19, Issue 3, p105
- ISSN
1301-191X
- Publication type
Article