The Impact of musculoskeletal Injury on sports Specific Skills in Volleyball Players

Volleyball is one of the games which are spread worldwide. its players can be divided into 3 main groups i.e. libro, setter and attacker. These positions are entirely connected with the strength, power, attention and specific skills of individual player. It is a sport involving horizontal and vertical, brisk and vigorous movements of the body. it is believed that every contact as well as non contact sport needs physical and psychological fitness with specific skills.

To evaluate the impact of the musculoskeletal injuries on sports specific skills of volleyball players, prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries of volleyball players & discover incidence rate of musculoskeletal injuries of volleyball players during specific period of time.

30 National male volleyball players of Punjabi University, Patiala meeting inclusion and exclusion criteria were recruited. The players that participated voluntarily as the sample of the study were explained about the need and objectives of the study after taking the written informed consent. injury prevalence forms were filled by the investigator for previous injuries in past 1 year of the period. After taking previous data and completion of 6 months duration post-season test data collected with SAi volleyball skill test.

Present study is providing us useful indication about 83% of prevalence rate, 66% of incidence rate, 21% of absolute incidence rate of injuries and 1.32% of relative incidence rate of injuries during competition period.

Study concludes that there are significant reductions in the scores of sports specific skills of the volleyball players with or without injury status; hence, it cannot be potentially viable to explain that these reductions in the specific skills are only due to the musculoskeletal injuries. Other psychological factors might also be responsible for reduction in the specific skills.