Investigating the sports injuries of Turkish beginner female wrestlers

Abstract

Purpose: Wrestling is one of the successful sports that many organs are not immune from injury. Many factors Wrestlers are included in the occurrence of damages. Athletes' lack of awareness of these factors increases the percentage of injury. The purpose of this research is to investigate the injuries of female beginner wrestlers in Türkiye.

Methods: Based on this, among the wrestlers of Edirne, Istanbul, Antalya, Ankara, Izmir, Yalova, Trabzon, Samsun, Isparta and Muğla provinces, 100 beginner female wrestlers with age 15±2.13, weight 48±3.24, height 151±2.87 were chosen voluntarily. Then, by filling the injury questionnaire, the injuries of different organs in 2 past years were collected. Analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data by SPSS 22 software at a significance level of 5%.

Results: The results showed that beginner female wrestlers are more exposed to sports injuries. The amount of damage in low weights was much higher than high weights and this may be due to the greater activity of light weight wrestlers to perform the technique and also the large number of wrestlers present in light weights. The most common Wrestling injuries include muscle damage, joint damage, fractures, dislocations, lacerations, and concussions.

Conclusion: The injury rate of wrestlers may be due to the difference in the level of knowledge of coaches and athletes, as well as the difference in the level of sports equipment used by these wrestlers. Therefore, it is suggested to hold special training classes to increase the knowledge of wrestling coaches and beginner athletes.