The Prevention and Treatment of Injuries in Chinese Female Football Players / 中国运动医学杂志

ABSTRACT

For the purpose of preventing and treating the injuries in female football players, we investigated the incidence and the types of injuries, and analyzed the causes that lead to the injuries in 175 players from 8 female football teams. The results were as follows (1) The incidence of injuries was 235.4 ％, including 41.8 ％ of acute and 58.2 ％ of chronic injuries. (2) The main injures included contusion (46.5 ％), sprain (22.8 ％), muscle torsion (11.5 ％), and abrasion (10.9 ％). (3) The injuries usually occurred in ankle (22％), knee (14.8 ％), thigh (14 ％), head and neck (9.5 ％), leg (8.5 ％), foot (7.4 ％), lumbar (6.6 ％). (4) The major causes of injuries included inadequate training (33.3 ％), disobeying training principles (25.2 ％), man-made factors (24.2 ％),and others (17.5 ％). In accordance with the causes, 93 players from Guangdong, Henan, Shandong, Bayi female football teams in 1997 were taken as the treatment group with various prevention and treatment measures, while 58 players from Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi female football teams were taken as the control group. The incidence of injury in 1998 was 105.4 ％ in the treatment group, while 229.3 ％ in the control group (P<0.05). As compared with the incidence of injury in 1997 (235.4 ％), the incidence of injury in the treatment group was also statistically lower (P<0.05). It was concluded that the measures of prevention and treatment in the study were effective.