Investigation of the incidence and causes elite tennis players’ injuries in Turkey
Tennis which is a sport branch forcing technical, tactical, physiological and psychological capabilities of human is one of the best sports branches. “Sports Injuries” is referred to every kind of damage occurring during sportive activities. Several factors are involved in sports injuries including...
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author | Orhan Ahmet Sener Serife Cınar Taner Zıylan |
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which is a sport branch forcing technical, tactical, physiological and
psychological capabilities of human is one of the best sports branches. “Sports
Injuries” is referred to every kind of damage occurring during sportive
activities. Several factors are involved in sports injuries including age,
quality of the material used, weather, lighting, court, hall, component,
physical condition of the athlete etc. In addition, psychological factor have
also been stated to play a role in sports injuries. The study was performed
with a questionnaire conducted on 86 elite male tennis players who were playing
in Ankara, Konya and Istanbul regions at 1990-1991 season of Turkey Tennis
Classification League. In study, 47 players have exposed to injury, while 39
have not. Rates of injuries were found to be higher in the shoulder, elbow,
knee and ankle regions compared to the other parts of the body. In conclusion,
in this study we found that the incidence of injury was 54.65% among male
tennis player. In addition, our findings indicated that stressful events
experienced by the tennis players were also effective on injuries. |
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spelling | doaj-art-add67227feb3437c8784cc8203b881772025-02-03T03:38:42ZengSelcuk University PressTürk Spor ve Egzersiz Dergisi2147-56522016-08-011827678154Investigation of the incidence and causes elite tennis players’ injuries in TurkeyOrhan Ahmet Sener0Serife Cınar1Taner Zıylan2SELCUK UNIVKTO KARATAY ÜNİVERSİTESİKTO KARATAY ÜNİVERSİTESİTennis which is a sport branch forcing technical, tactical, physiological and psychological capabilities of human is one of the best sports branches. “Sports Injuries” is referred to every kind of damage occurring during sportive activities. Several factors are involved in sports injuries including age, quality of the material used, weather, lighting, court, hall, component, physical condition of the athlete etc. In addition, psychological factor have also been stated to play a role in sports injuries. The study was performed with a questionnaire conducted on 86 elite male tennis players who were playing in Ankara, Konya and Istanbul regions at 1990-1991 season of Turkey Tennis Classification League. In study, 47 players have exposed to injury, while 39 have not. Rates of injuries were found to be higher in the shoulder, elbow, knee and ankle regions compared to the other parts of the body. In conclusion, in this study we found that the incidence of injury was 54.65% among male tennis player. In addition, our findings indicated that stressful events experienced by the tennis players were also effective on injuries.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/271384causes of injuryinjury incidencetennis players |
spellingShingle | Orhan Ahmet Sener Serife Cınar Taner Zıylan Investigation of the incidence and causes elite tennis players’ injuries in Turkey Türk Spor ve Egzersiz Dergisi causes of injury injury incidence tennis players |
title | Investigation of the incidence and causes elite tennis players’ injuries in Turkey |
title_full | Investigation of the incidence and causes elite tennis players’ injuries in Turkey |
title_fullStr | Investigation of the incidence and causes elite tennis players’ injuries in Turkey |
title_full_unstemmed | Investigation of the incidence and causes elite tennis players’ injuries in Turkey |
title_short | Investigation of the incidence and causes elite tennis players’ injuries in Turkey |
title_sort | investigation of the incidence and causes elite tennis players injuries in turkey |
topic | causes of injury injury incidence tennis players |
url | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/271384 |
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