Department of physiotherapy, Padmashree Dr D. Y. Patil University, Nerul, Navi Mumbai
*Corresponding author: Preksha Savla, Department of physiotherapy, Padmashree Dr D. Y. Patil university Nerul, Navi Mumbai. Email id: epd_90@hotmail.com
Online published on 13 January, 2015.
Basketball is a popular team sport worldwide played in professional leagues, school teams, college teams. Though basketball is considered as a limited contact sport, athletes are at a risk for acute injuries as a result of trauma from collisions and falls and tremendous stress placed on the body from acceleration, deceleration, pivoting and explosive movements as basketball is a fast aggressive sport. This demands good physical fitness such as equilibrium, strength, stamina, flexibility, power and reaction time. Since this sport is gaining popularity in India the purpose of this study is to study the injury profile in basketball players.
To identify the most common injury, site of injury, nature of injury and recommend exercise guidelines for prevention of injuries in basketball players.
Cross sectional survey.
80 basketball players were interviewed using a validated questionnaire. The data obtained was analysed using simple percentage.
The commonest site of injury in the lower extremity is ankle(56%) followed by knee(18%). The most common nature of injury was the ligament injury with the lateral ligament complex being commonly involved followed by ACL.
Ankle sprains were the commonest injuries occurring in basketball players and ankle was the most common site of injury.
Basketball, injuries, training session
