Prevalência e caracterização de lesões musculoesqueléticas entre jovens praticantes de futebol

Abstract

Background: The soccer game is characterized by diverse physical demands and high prevalence of injuries. The current study aimed to describe prevalence and sports injuries characteristics in soccer players. Casuistry and Methods: Casuistry was constituted by 176 participants with 10-17 aged soccer players who were divided in four (4) age groups: Sub-11; Sub-13; Sub-15; and Sub-17. Demographic and anthropometric parameters, as well as retrospective SI were collected as dependent variables. Results: The groups Sub-15 and Sub-17 had the highest rates of weekly training hours. Sub-17 exhibited higher SI (Sports Injuries) cases prevalence, and Sub-11 reported greater SI incidence by injured participant (46.2 %); 50 cases (62.5 %) derived from training sessions. Inferior limbs were the main anatomical sites of SI onset, with 66 cases (82.5%), and ankle/foot constituted the main region related by participants, with 30 cases (45.5 %). In terms of mechanisms, non-traumatic SI were the more prevalently related (55 %), and mild severity with 49 cases (61.3%). Likewise, asymptomatic return was more commonly reported, totalizing 57 cases (71.3 %); 62 cases (77.5%) occurred without the needed of any medical or therapeutic support. Conclusion: SI prevalence among young soccer players consisted of light cases on inferior limbs sites in ankle/foot and non-associated with medical support.