The Epidemiology of Sports Injuries for Rhythmic Gymnasts in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Yen-Chih Kung, 龔妍芝
• Other Authors: Shih-Chung Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63673576163344473251

碩士 === 國立體育大學 === 教練研究所 === 100 === Introduction: With the evolution of international rules rhythmic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics moves toward difficult, novel, beautiful harmony of the continuous development of the athlete's physical and psychological demands increased, so the chances of injury is increasing. Through the study of rhythmic gymnasts and coaches of the investigation, rhythmic gymnasts to study the causes of sports injuries, to reduce the incidence of sports injuries, provide a reference to improve the performance of athletes. Objective: 1.understand the injury types, reasons and impact in Taiwan rhythmic gymnasts; 2 understand the injury treatment, medical and seeking behavior in Taiwan rhythmic gymnasts; 3 understand the movements that cause injury in Taiwan rhythmic gymnasts; 4 analysis of rhythmic gymnastics injury reasons, the treatments of injury, the parts of injury and the types of injury at the differences of demographic variables. With specific sampling National Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship players 120 valid responses were recruited. The Rhythmic gymnast sports injury questionnaire was designed for this study. It includes four parts are: background information, injury report, injuries management and injury treatment. The result of the questionnaire was analyzed by using SPSS for Windows 18.0. The following conclusions were drawn based on the results of descriptive statistics and chi-square test. The result from this study showed: The ankles prain was most rhythmic gymnasts’ injuries (28.2％), follow up was lower back strain (21.8％); improper posture (19.5％) was the major cause of getting injury; the major impact was practice (44.4％). Most participants would apply ice (49.3％) for immediate treatment after injury occurred; follow up was massage (30.8％). Chinese medicine treatment (56.9％) was most medical seeking behavior, follow up was western medicine (23.5％). The main movements that cause injury was jump up action (16.5％), follow up was jump (14.1％), and waist warm-up (12.9％) was third. The concludesion are rhythmic gymnastics injury reasons (17), the treatments of injury (23), the parts of injury (9) and. the types of injury (3) were in the demographic variables showed significant differences The discussion: The rhythmic gymnasts should be at the usual practice when they should pay attention to the waist and ankle injury protection; rhythmic gymnasts and coaches continue to face injury and appropriate treatment and therapy; established players to write detailed daily training log to record physical condition, lifestyle and sports injury cases.