Sport injuries among the junior women duelists according to the type of weapon

Soliman, Mohamed Mohamed; Ibrahim, Mohamed Khamis Anwar

doi:10.21608/eijssa.2019.72916

Sport injuries among the junior women duelists according to the type of weapon

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ the department of combats and individual sports training – faculty of physical education (men) Alexandria University – Arab republic of Egypt

² the department of biological science and sport health - faculty of physical education (men) Alexandria University – Arab republic of Egypt

10.21608/eijssa.2019.72916

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to identify sport injuries of the junior female duelists according to the type of the weapon. Researchers used the descriptive method by making survey for its suitability of the nature of research. The research sample included 53 of the junior women duelists that aged between 14-17 years old. All research measurements were applied in (the Alexandrian weapon - Sporting and Egyptian weapon) clubs. Research was applied during the period from 14/6/2014 until 2/10/2014. Through the discussion of results we notice that the most of the three weapons (foil – epee – saber) duelists had been exposed to the injuries and not restricted to a weapon for another, that the most of injuries happened during competition, where competition highlights among players in games, also not restricted to specific part from the anatomical locations of the player, but the most of injuries are exist in the lower limb and arms, and there are more reasons that lead to the duelist’ injury including internal that belong to the player himself or external via training way or used devices, and other reasons. So it’s necessary to spread the rules of security and prevention in the different games to prevent the injuries occurrence and working on conducting more researches that discuss injuries prevention in all games, and modifying laws and devices of each game to assure the players’ safety.

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