سازوكار و شيوع آسيب هاي ورزشي در ليگ برتر هندبال زنان

Mechanism and incidence of sport injuries in premier female handball league

The purpose of this study was to investigate mechanisms and incidence of sport injuries in premier female handball league. Seventy five players from 5 teams that were participated in premier league (2006-2007) were studied. The information related to injury were collected by injury report forms (Fuller et al, 2006 BJSM) that completed by team physician stuffs. Chi square test was used for analyses. In total 23 injuries were occurred, which most of them (74%) were occurred in lower limb, followed by upper limb (13%) and trunk, head and neck (13%). The most common site of injury was knee (43.5%) and then ankle (21.7%). About half of injuries were severe injuries (x2= 5.8, P>0.05). Rate of contact injuries (69.6%) were more than noncontact (30.4%) injuries (%2 = 3. 5, P>0.05). The majority of knee and ankle injuries were occurred via contact mechanism especially by contact to other players. Circle (34.8%) and then corner (26%) and right and left back players (21.7%) were more prone to injury (x 2 = 6.34, P>0.05). Circle players commonly sustained knee and ankle injuries, whereas knee injury was the most common injury in corner and right and left back players. Most of the injuries were occurred during landing from jumping (39%), feint and changing direction (30.4%), and because of pushing by other players (21.7%) (x2 = 11.13, P<0.05). It can concluded that circle, corner and right and left back players are more prone to knee and ankle injuries, when performing cutting and landing maneuvers. Therefore, players, coaches, trainers and medical staff should pay more attention to these factors and take these into account while they designing preventive injury programs.