Sport injuries in amateur recreational athletes of taekwondo
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Athletic Injuries, Martial Arts, Knee Injuries, Ankle InjuriesAbstract
Combat sports are very common in mega sporting events, and, among them, taekwondo stands out. These modalities, which prioritizes direct contact between participants mainly from kicks and punches and provides ambiguity in the health-sport relationship, as its practice is considered harmful. The aim of the study was to quantify the prevalence of injuries in recreational taekwondo athletes, from training or competitions, and to test their association with intrinsic and extrinsic factors. This is a descriptive observational study, of a retrospective nature, which used a reported morbidity survey to record the conditions. Information regarding sports injuries was recorded considering the last six months of 2018. Participants were athletes aged between 12 and 25 years of both sexes, practicing taekwondo in the city of Pelotas / RS. The prevalence of sports injuries in recreational taekwondo practitioners in the city of Pelotas is 26.2% (n = 11), no significant differences between sexes. The main reason for the participants' practice is health conditioning (35.7%). The main mechanism of injury was kick attacking (45.4%) followed by impact when performing defense (27.3%). The most frequent type of injury was sprain (27.3%) followed by contusion (18.2%), and the most injured body segments were the knee (36.4%) and ankle (36.4%). The prevalence of sports injuries in recreational taekwondo practitioners in the city of Pelotas is lower than that found in the literature, and this may be due to the nature of the practice, given that they are recreational amateur athletes, with the practice aimed at conditioning for health.
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