Prieto Mondragón LDP1, Sanchez Parra AL1
1Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Human Body Movement and its Disorders, Bogota, Colombia
Background: Taekwondo, as a contact sport, has a significant presence of injuries being the joint injuries and sprains as the most prevalent injuries in the lower extremities, mainly knees, ankles and feet, which are caused by the large number of high-speed movements, supports unipodales and the high difficulty of the techniques performed at maximum speed. Injury prevention strategies are important because they have been shown to reduce the prevalence and incidence of sports injuries. However, despite the bibliographic diversity related to injury prevention programs, it is limited or nonexistent, in the application of preventive programs in combat sports, and even more, in sports such as Taekwondo.
Purpose: To determine the effect of an injury prevention program on joint integrity and mobility, static and dynamic balance in Taekwondo.
Methods: Non-randomized study, of pre and post-intervention type, in which sixteen (16) athletes (Age 22.4 ± 2.8 Years, height 1.70 ± 0.1Cm, Weight 64.1 ± 11Kg) belonging to the selection of Taekwondo from the National University, met the inclusion criteria to participate in the research. After the signing of the informed consent, an anthropometric assessment was made, the functional mobility was evaluated with Functional Movement Screen test battery and the dynamic balance with and Star Excursion Balance test and the balance static by using the Balance Error Scoring System test. After the evaluation, the injury prevention program was applied 8 weeks, 2 days per week. This program was adapted to the technical characteristics and physical demands of Taekwondo.
Results: In the assessment of the Functional Movement, an average of improvement was reported on the values of the FMS in 100% of the population, where after the intervention 50% of the population increased the final score of the test by 4 points with greater impact on the deep squat and scissor tests in-line, thus achieving greater motor control, determined by the improvement in stabilization of trunk, especially in the sagittal plane facilitating the functional mobility of lower limbs, achieving an adequate muscular balance. In the dynamic balance, evaluated with (SEBT), an increase >10cm was reported in the excursion in all directions in 63% of the population; Finally, in the static balance test (BESS) a decrease in errors of 81% of the population was generated, in the positions: Unipodal and Tandem in the foam surface, results that can be associated with an increase in the dynamic postural balance, as static.
Conclusion(s): It was determined that an injury prevention program adapted to the technical and physical requirements of a sport modality, such as Taekwondo, generates significant changes in the functional movement, in the static and dynamic balance.
Implications: This project is an important opportunity from the academic and clinical point of view, because it contributes to the development of knowledge and practice of Physical Therapy in contact sports. It allows to generate a better interventions for maintain and improve the athlete performance, as well as reduct the costs generated by medical, pharmacological and physical rehabilitation treatments and therefore the loss of physical condition of these athletes after a injury.
Keywords: Injury prevention, Balance, Taekwondo.
Funding acknowledgements: None declared by the authors.
Purpose: To determine the effect of an injury prevention program on joint integrity and mobility, static and dynamic balance in Taekwondo.
Methods: Non-randomized study, of pre and post-intervention type, in which sixteen (16) athletes (Age 22.4 ± 2.8 Years, height 1.70 ± 0.1Cm, Weight 64.1 ± 11Kg) belonging to the selection of Taekwondo from the National University, met the inclusion criteria to participate in the research. After the signing of the informed consent, an anthropometric assessment was made, the functional mobility was evaluated with Functional Movement Screen test battery and the dynamic balance with and Star Excursion Balance test and the balance static by using the Balance Error Scoring System test. After the evaluation, the injury prevention program was applied 8 weeks, 2 days per week. This program was adapted to the technical characteristics and physical demands of Taekwondo.
Results: In the assessment of the Functional Movement, an average of improvement was reported on the values of the FMS in 100% of the population, where after the intervention 50% of the population increased the final score of the test by 4 points with greater impact on the deep squat and scissor tests in-line, thus achieving greater motor control, determined by the improvement in stabilization of trunk, especially in the sagittal plane facilitating the functional mobility of lower limbs, achieving an adequate muscular balance. In the dynamic balance, evaluated with (SEBT), an increase >10cm was reported in the excursion in all directions in 63% of the population; Finally, in the static balance test (BESS) a decrease in errors of 81% of the population was generated, in the positions: Unipodal and Tandem in the foam surface, results that can be associated with an increase in the dynamic postural balance, as static.
Conclusion(s): It was determined that an injury prevention program adapted to the technical and physical requirements of a sport modality, such as Taekwondo, generates significant changes in the functional movement, in the static and dynamic balance.
Implications: This project is an important opportunity from the academic and clinical point of view, because it contributes to the development of knowledge and practice of Physical Therapy in contact sports. It allows to generate a better interventions for maintain and improve the athlete performance, as well as reduct the costs generated by medical, pharmacological and physical rehabilitation treatments and therefore the loss of physical condition of these athletes after a injury.
Keywords: Injury prevention, Balance, Taekwondo.
Funding acknowledgements: None declared by the authors.
Topic: Sport & sports injuries; Health promotion & wellbeing/healthy ageing; Education
Ethics approval required: Yes
Institution: Ministry of Health
Ethics committee: Resolution No. 008430 of 1993
Ethics number: Resolution No. 008430 of 1993
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