Incidence and jeopardize factors of knee injury in the case of male volleyball players in Ethiopia
International Journal of Development Research
Incidence and jeopardize factors of knee injury in the case of male volleyball players in Ethiopia
Received 17th October, 2019; Received in revised form 04th November, 2019; Accepted 13th December, 2019; Published online 29th January, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Abeje Kumilachew. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Background: Volleyball is one of the most widely played sports in addition to football and basketball. International de Volley-Ball Federation (FIVB) represents about 800 million players in approximately in the world played volleyball. While a large body of research has been conducted regarding the nature and prevalence of volleyball injuries internationally, but not conducted in Ethiopia broadly. Objective: the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of knee injuries and its associated risk factors on volleyball players of a club in Wollo Anbasal and Tana Bahir-Dar in the season of 2014-2016 G.C. Methods: Descriptive survey study was used. For this study all players and coaches was included on the two selected clubs (20 volleyball players and 2 coaches). A self–administered questions and observation were used. The collected data were taken and analyzed by means of the Statistical Package for Social Science version 16.0. The associations between variables were evaluated by means of the chi-square test. The results are displayed using table and figures. Results: response rate of 100% was obtained, 80% of the volleyball players experienced with one or more injuries in the season, 26 injuries occurred on the seasons and the rate were 1.3 per player. Among the injured players knee (34.6%) injuries. Players in the left and right front row were more exposed to injury at the time of spiking& blocking, higher injury occurred due to contact with players and wrong landing. Most injury occurred during the 3rd and 4th set of the game. Conclusion- Knee injuries were the most common types of injuries occurred to players. Above half of the injured players were not used kneepads. Playing court also increase the prevalence of injury. Players were not getting access of water during match & training, and physiotherapy services were not functional in the club due to absence of physiotherapists. Finally most injuries were occurred due to extrinsic factors.
