This study aims to investigate what types of injury frequently occur when wrestlers perform their exercise and what cause their injury and propose an efficient scheme to prevent injury. The subjects consist of 59 Greco-Roman and 53 Free-style wrestler...
This study aims to investigate what types of injury frequently occur when wrestlers perform their exercise and what cause their injury and propose an efficient scheme to prevent injury. The subjects consist of 59 Greco-Roman and 53 Free-style wrestlers. The results are as follows:
(1) Locations of Sports Injury
In the case of Greco-Roman wrestlers, the most frequent locations of injury were in the following order: the knee joints, the wrist joints, followed by the neck, the ankle joints, the hands, the shoulder, the head, the elbow joints, the face, the breastbone, ribs, the waist, hip joints, the upper arms, the abdomen, the head, the hip, the forearms, the femoral region and trunk. In the case of Free-style wrestlers, they were in the following order: the head, the wrist joints, the face, the knee joints, the neck, the waist, the elbow joints, the ankle joints, the breastbone, ribs, the hands, hip joints, the forearms, the shoulder, the abdomen, the upper arms and trunk.
(2) Types of Sports Injury
In the case of Greco-Roman wrestlers, the most frequent injury types were in the following order: scratch, muscle contusion(96.6%), muscle stiffness(94.9%), muscle sprain(93.2%), sprain(91.5%), fracture(88.1%), aural hematoma(86.4%), fissure(84.7%), bone contusion(83%), incised wound or cut, collateral ligament tension and fracture(79.6%), joint sprain(76.2%), tendon fracture(64.4%), dislocation(59.3%), arthritis, disc(57.6%), cerebral concussion(50.8%), proliferous bone change(49.1%), chronic joint change(45.7%), periostitis(38.9%), nerve contusion(37.2%) and cerebral contusion(27.1%). In the case of Free-style wrestlers, they were in the following order: scratch(98.1%), muscle contusion(96.6%), muscle sprain(92.4%), sprain(91.5%), collateral ligament tension and fracture(88.6%), muscle stiffness(86.7%), joint sprain(84.9%), fissure(81.1%), fracture(79.2%), incised wound or cut, aural hematoma(71.6%), disc(69.8%), tendon fracture(56.6%), chronic joint change(49%), arthritis(47.1%), dislocation, proliferous bone change(45.2%), periostitis(41.5%), nerve contusion(37.7%), cerebral concussion(33.9%) and cerebral contusion(30.1%).
(3) Times of Sports Injury
According to 96.6% of Greco-Roman wrestlers and 98.1% of Free-style wrestlers, the most frequent time of injury occurrence was exercise time. While 38.9% of Greco-Roman wrestlers reported the experience of an injury on defense, 37.7% of Free-style wrestlers reported the experience of an injury both on offense and defense. While 100% of Greco-Roman wrestlers reported the experience of an injury on a cloudy day, 94.3% of Free-style wrestlers reported the experience of an injury on cloudy or raining days. The experience of an injury in the winter season was reported by 54.2% and 39.6% of Greco-Roman and Free-style wrestlers, respectively. The experience of an injury during afternoon exercise time was reported by 71.1% and 81.1% of Greco-Roman and Free-style wrestlers, respectively.
(4) Causes of Sports Injury
'carelessness', 'an excessive desire to win' and 'the inability of coaches' were cited as the major causes of sports injury by 67.9%, 33.8% and 25.4 % of Greco-Roman wrestlers, respectively. Meanwhile, 'an excessive desire to win', 'lack of warm-up' and 'the inability of coaches' were cited as the major causes of sports injury by 64.1%, 37.7% and 30.1% of Free-style wrestlers, respectively.
(5) Treatment of Sports Injury
Both Greco-Roman and Free-style wrestlers reported that, when they had an injury, the emergency treatment was given by coaches and subsequent treatments were administered in hospital and that hot fomentation was applied as an emergency treatment.
(6) Psychological state at time of sports injury
Both Greco-Roman and Free-style wrestlers reported that, in case of an injury, they were thinking "I'm going to get better soon." Greco-Roman wrestlers' psychological reaction to injury was "What if I can't do as well as before? while that of Free-style wresters was "I'm afraid I will get hurt again." The most frequently recommended by both Greco-Roman and Free-style wrestlers as a solution to reduce injury was 'enough warm-up and finishing'.
(7) To the question how many times they had an injury on the same location after treatment, 55.9% of Greco-Roman wrestlers and 47.1% of Free-style wrestlers answered "two to five times". Most of them reported they had experienced an injury in the same location after treatment.
(8) Greco-Roman and Free-style wrestlers reported they participated in national tournaments 67 and 70 times respectively and they have ever given up an important match at least once due to injury.