Injury Prevalence in Portuguese and French Judo Athletes
Received Date: Oct 14, 2020 / Accepted Date: Oct 20, 2020 / Published Date: Oct 29, 2020
Abstract
Context: Judo is mainly an individual sport which requires great explosiveness and speed of movement, being considered as a combat sport with high risk of injury.
Objective To quantify the prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries in judo practitioners. The intention was also to evaluate the intensity of pain in different body locations of the judo practitioners.
Design cross-sectional and observational study
Patient or other participants: The sample used in this study consisted of 30 French judo practitioners and 30 Portuguese judo practitioners. All athletes completed an individual characterization questionnaire regarding the training conditions followed by the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire.
Results: The regions of shoulder, knee, lumbar spine and fingers were regions where athletes reported more pain. The French athletes presented relatively more pain in relation to the Portuguese athletes. It was also observed that the athletes devalued the pain, since it was observed alighting for the medians of the pain scale by different body regions that was 0 or 0.5.
Conclusions: We can conclude that in the present sample the prevalence of lesions is very high, especially in the shoulder, knee, fingers and lumbar spine. It was also concluded that injuries do not oblige the athletes to stop activities. To end, athletes have a higher pain threshold or devalue injuries.
Keywords: Judo; Injury; Prevalence
Citation: Sacras D, Ribeiro A, Conceição Manso M (2020) Injury Prevalence in Portuguese and French Judo Athletes. J Community Med Health Educ 10: 695. Doi: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000695
Copyright: © 2020 Sacras D, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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