A Study of Injuries Among Indian Professional Football Players

Physical Education

Football is a high intensity sport characterized by continuous changes of duration and high load unipodal actions. Participation in football imposes high demands on neuromuscular control, agility, and eccentric/concentric strength. Most football injuries are related to the lower extremities, in which muscle injuries are among the major problems.1,2 Significant reductions of lower extremity injury risk have been reported to be achieved by intervention programs focusing on intrinsic risk factors.3,4 In addition, plyometric training, agility drills and other components of preventive programs were found to be effective in lowering the incidence of injury in football.5 An exercise programme called ‘The developed with the support of the World Football Association FIFA, also focuses on injury prevention.6 There is a group of exercises designed to help the un-injured soccer player prevent the common injuries which includes dynamic warm-up and key stretching and strengthening exercises that addresses the needs of a soccer player. Warming up and cooling down are strongly favored injury prevention strategies. The purpose of a dynamic warm-up is to increase muscle temperature in order to enhance the effectiveness of muscle contraction, increase oxygen to the muscles, increase tissue elasticity, and create movement patterns for game situation. In the light of the above, the investigators become interested in determining the possible risk factors involved in football injuries, mechanism of injuries severity of injuries and psychological factors as a predictors of injuries in Indian football. The football injuries can be define as any physical complaint by the footballers during match playing and training or practice period it may be contact or non-contact. Contact may be contact with players to players, players to referee and players to goal post however may be running, jumping and turning.

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