Common Lower Limbs Injury Among Field Hockey Players

The purpose of the study to examine the common injuries of lower limbs among field hockey player at different field position during practice as well as game. It was hypothesized that ankle sprain is one of highest rate of injury at lower limbs site. National level field hockey player from Manipur and Assam state of north eastern region of India was selected as subject for the study. They all are responding an questionnaire including personal characteristics of each and individual players like (age, height, weight); field hockey professional information (level of play, year of experience, playing surface); players injury history (site, types, cause etc). The rate of injury per athlete per year also calculated. More than half of the total 165 lower limbs injury that occurred in ankle (sprain) around 55.75%, the next most frequent injury was wounds with 22.42% followed by knee injury 14.54%, abrasion 6.06% & fracture only 1.81%. After determining the rate and risk of injury to different field position. Overall forward had the highest rate of injury (0.67 injury/athlete-year), (0.64 injury/athlete-year) to backfield players followed by (0.62 injury/athlete-year) and (0.22 injury/athlete-year) to midfield and goal keeper respectively. Due to the different field position the pattern & rate of injury were different. It also revealed that not only there is a difference in the rate of injury between playing position, but also in the types of injury sustain at different position.