The study purpose was to follow a prospective cohort study design to use gait kinematic parameters to identify the risk factors and to develop a statistical model to predict running-related lower limb injuries of sportspersons.
Materials and methods. BTS G-WALK® gait analysis system was used to collect gait kinematic data of 87 subjects from an institute of physical education and sports science.
The subjects were followed for a full academic season after which the researcher inquired about their injury occurrences. Binary logistic regression was used to develop a prediction model to predict lower limb injuries of sportspersons.
Results. The result of the study revealed that increasing Range of Obliquity, Range of Tilt and Range of Rotation were associated with increased likelihood of future running-related lower limb injury. However, the lower Symmetry Index was associated with increase in the likelihood of future running-related lower limb injury.
Conclusions. The study confirmed that it is possible to predict injury, but for practical implication further research is essential with a bigger sample size.
Objective: Previous researches on sports injuries primarily focused on specific games or sports or on specific types of injuries. None of them had tried to explore the injury patterns of games and sports altogether. The current study tried to explore the injury patterns of sportspersons over 16 different types of games and sports. Materials and methods: Total of 1008 injury cases (649 male and 369 female, age 21.07±2.78 and 20.81± 3.01 years) between the academic sessions 2008 to 2017 were analysed. Injury data were extracted from the institute injury record book. Apart from age and gender, ' Body site of injury ', ' Types of injury ' and ' Recurring of injury ' were selected as variables for the study. Descriptive statistics, bar and pie diagram were generated using crosstabs function of IBM SPSS. Results: An average 101.80±12.59 injury was reported per year. Footballers were found to be the highest injured sportsperson (19.5%). Injury percentage of male players (63.75%) was higher compared to female (36.25%) counterparts. Lower limb area (45.28%) was found to be the highest affected body site of injury followed by upper limb area (29.47%). Acute injury constituted 50.39% of overall injuries. Most injuries were non-recurring in nature (63.65%). Further different combinations of analysis revealed more insight of injury patterns of sportspersons.
A comparative study between professional and amateur medium-fast bowlers was conducted to assess the difference between the standing broad jump Performance of both groups. 40 male participants of the age group 16-19 were selected for the study. SBJ (standing broad jump) was considered the dependent variable. The health status and subjects' willingness to participate in the study was considered prior to the test. For the calculations, independent samples t-test was used with a 0.05 level of significance. Data were computed with the help of IBM SPSS 26 software. The mean performance of professional mediumfast bowlers was found to be 2.26 whereas it was 2.16 for the amateur medium-fast bowlers. On the 0.05 level of significance, the null hypothesis failed to be rejected at obtained t-value = -0.458. It was concluded that there was no statistically significant difference between both groups. Further recommendations were made for future studies.
Keeping in mind the research question "does bowling fast really accomplish the very purpose of bowling i.e., getting wickets?", a study was conducted to reach to a conclusion and factors associated with fast bowling. With the help of online data available on reliable platforms such as cricbuzz.com and ESPN CricInfo, bowlers who have bowled the fastest deliveries were selected. Some delimitations were applied to refine the data. Bowlers' records including overall wickets taken, matches played, and bowling strike rate were considered for the study. These records were compared against the records of the most successful bowlers in international cricket. Further, a few recommendations for future studies were outlined.
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