Nowadays, the interest and need for sports activities are becoming ever larger. It can be said that this wish to exercise has never before been as prominant as it is today. As a consiquence, our knowledge concerning sports injuries is also increasing.
Sports injuries present one of the biggest problems athletes are faced with. The problems occur in top-level sports as well as in recreative sports. They are also ever more frequently present in the school and study process.
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate one of the larger problems students at the Faculty of Sport are confronted with: sports injuries. To be more precise, the focus of this thesis are sports injuries of first year students at the Faculty of Sport in the schoolyear 2016/2017.
In the introduction, we present sports injuries, how they come to be and the risk factors as well as anatomic paterns and locations of the injuries in further detail.
After that, we show the statistics of the research results, which we conducted at the Faculty with the intention of discovering the injuries that happen most frequently to the first year students studying one of the three courses: kinesiology, physical education and sports training. Above all, we wished to find out what are the reasons for the occurance of injuries, the time of the occurance of injuries, the frequence of repeat injuries and their seriousness. We were also interested whether there are any differences between the male and female population when it comes to injuries. Our findings show that there are no differences between the sexes concerning the occurance of injuries, neither are there differences between student courses. There are, however, such differences between individual parts of the study unit, as the majority of the injuries occured in the middle of the study period. 126 FS students participated in our research (64 men and 62 women). While we were observing them, 47 students were injured (37%), 22 men and 25 women. Our findings show that there are no differences between sexes when it comes to occurance of injuries. Differences can, however, be found in the occurance of injuries between study subjects. The largest number of injuries occured at the subject of Athletics 1, followed by Sports Gymnastics with rhythmic Expression 1, The Basics of Movement in Sports. The subject with the least sports injuries was Swimming 1 with the basics of lifeguarding. When regarding types of injuries, we noted the highest number of muscle injuries (37%), followed by joint injuries (21%) and sinew injuries (16%).
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