Prevalence of anterior cruciate ligament injury and its associated factors among the trainees at Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan

Abstract

Purpose: To identify the prevalence of ACL injury among the trainees at BKSP. Objective: To expose the injured participant’s age, training duration and sporting event, identify other associated knee injuries, extract the types of injury, identify recurrence of injuries among the trainees, know about the management of injury (medication, physiotherapy or both). Methodology: A quantitative cross-sectional study design was chosen to achieve the objectives of the study. 50 subjects were selected through convenience sampling technique from the trainees, who trained in BKSP by using a structural questionnaire to collect data. Results: The prevalence of ACL injury 78% (n=39) among the 50 participants. Among the injured participants most affected age was 14, 25.6% (n=10). Male trainees are more affected at the percentage of 71.8% (n=28). 28.2% (n=11) participants are suffered from ACL injury who are trainees of athletics and 41% (n=16) participants are injured whom training event is 2 years. Along with ACL injury 15.4% (n=6) participants are suffered from meniscus injury. 87.2% (n=34) injured participants are affected by direct hit and recurrence rate is 23.1% (n=9). Among 39 affected participants 41% (n=16) participants do their warm up cool down activities for 15 to 20 minutes and most of them about 79.5% (n=31) taken both medicines and physiotherapy treatment. Keywords: Prevalence, ACL Injury, Trainees, BKSP.