Injuries in Iran Futsal National Teams: A Comparative Study of Incidence and Characteristics

Abstract

Background:Futsal is a growing sport with lots of fans in many countries including Iran, but there are few papers in the literature which report injuries in top level futsal.Objectives:The aim of this study is to record and analyze the incidence and characteristics of injuries in Iran futsal national teams from March 2011 to September 2012.Patients and Methods:55 Iranian national futsal players participated in this prospective cohort study. Before entering the study, all players took part in Pre-Competition Medical Assessment (PCMA) in accordance with FIFA protocol. Team physicians recorded the injuries throughout the match and trainings in a special form which was designed for this purpose. Finally, data analysis was done with the SPSS software.Results:The total exposure time for all players was 24326 hours (21138 hours during training and 3188 hours during matches). During the study period, 32 of the 55 national players (58.2%) incurred 54 injuries (incidence rate = 2.22 injuries per 1000 players-hours). The incidence rate of injury in female players was significantly higher than male players (P = 0.001). The majority of injuries (85.2%) were located on the lower extremities. The ankle was the most frequent injury location (40.7%) and sprain was the most frequent type of injury.Conclusions:Injuries are common among futsal players and female players are more prone to injuries than male players. The ankle is the most frequent site and sprain is the most frequent type of injury among futsal players.

Incidence Rate and Patterns of Sport Injury among College Students

“…Sprained ankle is the most common injury in this study, accounting for almost 35% of all injuries. This result was similar to those of several previous studies conducted which also found sprained ankle to be the most common injury in some sports, including football, basketball (Drakos, Domb, Starkey, Callahan, & Allen, 2010), futsal (Varkiani, Alizadeh, & Pourkazemi, 2010;Angoorani, Haratian, Mazaherinezhad, & Younespour, 2014;Serrano, Shahidian, Voser, & Leite, 2013) and volleyball (Sattler, 2011;Massada, Aido, Magalhaes, & Puga, 2011;Pimenta, Junior, Neto, & Lope, 2017). In contrast to previous studies, hand and wrist injury, not sprained ankle, was the most frequent injury in volleyball in a recent study.…”

Epidemiology of Injuries in Elite Female Futsal Players: A Prospective Cohort Study

“…In addition, present results confirm previous evidence in team sport athletes as matches created greater potential for injury than training sessions in professional female futsal players, only with contradictory results in a previous study [9]. With regard to match injury incidence, we found 57.87 per 1000 h (95 % CI: 57.30, 58.44) to be also higher than in Iranian Futsal team [8], female hockey (17.1; 95 % CI: 3.4, 30.7) [17] and female soccer players (12.5 to 23.6) [21], and it was especially higher than in sub-elite futsal teams (66.4; 95 % CI: 6.5, 7.4) [9]. This can be due to different performance levels of leagues in futsal [22].…”

“…In this regard, recent epidemiologic reports placed futsal as one of the highest injury risk sports [5,6]. In our study, 5.02 injuries/1000 h of exposure time were reported, which is slightly greater than the overall incidence of 4.17 reported in Iranian Female Futsal Team [8] and lower than in sub-elite female futsal Spanish team with 6.7 injuries/1000 h [9]; it is similar to other team sports athletes like female indoor hockey (5.00; 95 % CI: 4.1, 4.9) [17]. In addition, present results confirm previous evidence in team sport athletes as matches created greater potential for injury than training sessions in professional female futsal players, only with contradictory results in a previous study [9].…”

“…Despite the popularity regarding female futsal, only two prospective epidemiological studies have been published investigating injuries sustained by female professional (or elite) futsal players [1,2,7,8], and one in sub-elite futsal players [9]. These studies have reported incidence rates for male and female players ranging from 4.2 to 12.6 injuries per 1000 h of futsal [8][9][10][11], most of them affecting the lower extremity. However, only one of these studies provided epidemiological data of futsal-related injuries in female players about the injury burden (the product of severity [consequences] and incidence [likelihood]) [9].…”

Isokinetic Knee Muscle Strength Profile in Brazilian Male Soccer, Futsal, and Beach Soccer Players: A Cross-Sectional Study

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