Characterization of Common Sports Injury Among Youung Basketball Tainees

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the study was characterization of sports injury among young basket ball trainees. Objective: The research was to find out the characterization of sports injury among young basket ball trainees, to estimate the prevalence of sports injury among young basketball trainees, to determine which body parts are affected, to find out the nature of injuries, to extract the types of injuries, to know about the management of injuries (medication, physiotherapy or both), to evaluate that what was the beneficial for the trainees. Methodology: The study was a quantitative research model in the form of a prospective type survey in design is carried out in this study. Twenty-eight samples were selected by convenient sampling procedure. Data were collected from BKSP. Results: The study has been provided a baseline of information about the characterization of sports injury among young basket ball trainees. Among the 28 participants n=26, (92.9%) have injured during basketball training and rest of participants n=2, (7.1%) had no injury during basketball training. The mean age of the subjects was 16 years. However, among the 28 participants n= 8 (28.6%) participants were between 12-14 years, n=6 (21.4%) were between 15-16 years, n=14 (50%) were >17 years. Minimum age range was 12 years and maximum age range was 19 years. Among the 26 players n=1, (3.8%) had elbow injury, n=2, (7.7%) had wrist injury, n=1, (3.8%) hand and finger injury, n=1 (3.8%) had hip and thigh injury, n=10, (38.5%) had knee and leg injury, n=8 (30.8%) had ankle injury, n=1, (3.60%) had foot injury, n=2, (7.7%) had spine, back and trunk injury and n=1, (3.8%) had head and neck injuries. Among 26 participants n=17, (65.4%) had direct injury during their basketball training and n= 9, (34.6%) had overuse injury during basketball training. Among 26 participants n=12, (46.2%) taken medication, n=3, (11.5%) taken physiotherapy, n=11, (42.3%) taken both medication and physiotherapy after injury during their basketball training. Conclusion: It is said that, knee and leg and ankle injuries are most common injuries to all specialty of basketball trainees. Most commonly basketball trainees face direct and overuse injuries. More research should now be undertaken on sports related injuries of the basketball trainees, with an emphasis on larger sample sizes and response rate to be able to generalize the results and conclusions.