COMBINING BALANCE TRAINING PROGRAMME WITH FIBULAR REPOSITIONING TAPE IN PREVENTION OF ANKLE SPRAIN IN YOUNG FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Dr. NANDAN DAS; BHUMI SUTARIYA; SUHANI JAHOMARIYA

Volume : IX, Issue : VIII, August - 2020

COMBINING BALANCE TRAINING PROGRAMME WITH FIBULAR REPOSITIONING TAPE IN PREVENTION OF ANKLE SPRAIN IN YOUNG FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Dr. Nandan Das, Bhumi Sutariya, Suhani Jahomariya

Abstract :

Context- Ankle sprains are the most common musculoskeletal injuries that occur in athletes, following Pain and functional disability, and they have a profound impact on health care costs and resources. Aim - To find the combined effect of balance training programme with fibular repositioning tape in prevention of ankle sprain in young football players Method and material – 80 subjects were included in the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria and randomly divided into 2 groups, one intervention group and other is control group. Each had 40 subjects, where 20 subjects has history of prior injury and rest 20 has no prior injury. In Intervention group Balance training program and FRT is applied. Control group didn�t perform any training protocol. Ankle injury data were collected after each exposure via AISS & VAS .Injury severity was determined by functional limitation, pain levels. During the 8 weeks study period and around 1000 exposure sessions, we were able to compare the number of the participants got injured in intervention and control group, injured subjects were excluded from further data collection due to the increased chance of reinjury. Results –The intervention group sustained significantly less ankle injuries during the study period, intervention group sustained 6 injuries who has prior history of injury compared to 19 injuries in the control group where 12 participants with prior injury history and 7 participants with no history of prior injury.(Fisher exact test: P =0.0033). The odds ratio of sustaining an ankle injury in intervention, as compared to control condition participants, was 0.1950. Conclusion- the present study shows that by combining a balance training program followed by FRT will significantly reduce the risk of ankle sprains in young football players, and mostly participants who were injured in intervention group were those with prior ankle injury history.