A study of the Sports Injury of Volleyball Players in Korean Young Women

Ha, Kwon Ick; Chang, Jin Kwan; Hyun, Chung

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Certain motion in the sports of volleyball can cause injury. For examples, excessive spiking, jumping, receiving and rolling may produce strain, sprain and stress fracture, etc. of all extremities and spine. The authors analized injuries of 160 Korean young women volleyball players treated and managed at Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Police Hospital from September, 1973 to October, 1977. The results were as followings: 1. Of 160 cases, age distribution was ranged from 15 to 26 years and average was 20. 7 years. 2. Out of 495 injuries, 113 (23%) were upper extremities, 93 (19%) were lumbar and lumbosacral regions and 289(58%) were lower extremities. The most common site of injury was knee joint. 3. As to the ratio of the side, in the upper extremities 77% were in the right side and 23% in the left, but in the lower extremities both sides were nearly equal. 4. The injuries were composed of strain, sprain and the others, including stress fracture in 14, linear fracture of patella in 2, chip fracture of ulnar styloid process in 4, H.I.V.D. in 4 and meniscus tear in 6, etc.. 5. The injuries were supposed to be prevalent for the first one month after change from one to another team (14%). 6. The injury was usually more frequent in incidence among the exercise in winter and the heating in Gymnasium also one of the important factors to induce the injury, the injuries were less frequent at the good heating (40%). 7. It was concluded that the career of play did not affect significantly to incidence of the injury.

A study of the Sports Injury of Volleyball Players in Korean Young Women

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