Identifying the Incidence and the Causes of Injuries in Female Football Players in Iranian Premier League

Elham Tayebi; Hassan Daneshmandi; Mohammad Hossein Alizadeh

Volume : VI, Issue : II, February - 2016

Identifying the Incidence and the Causes of Injuries in Female Football Players in Iranian Premier League

Elham Tayebi, Hassan Daneshmandi, Mohammad Hossein Alizadeh

Abstract :

The main goal of this study was to identify injuries in femalefootball players in the Iranian Premier League.The Statistical Society of this study included 200 football players that purposefully from injured samples including 70 football players were selected and participated in the study. The information about injuries has collected in a period of 2 years retrospectively by using a standard questionnaire of Hawkins and Fuller through the players, physicians and team leaders. The results on 145 injuries for 10 football teams showed generally lower extremity injuries was (62.31%) that the highest of them happened (50%) in the knee, the most common type of injury in footballers was sprain(45.51 %) . The tackling and hit the kick, was the leading cause of injury. Given the alarming prevalence of injuries in women football and prevalence of knee and ankle injuries in varying degrees of strain and sprain because of tackling, this recommends to coaches and team physicians in addition to developing and implementing prevention strategies such as identification and specific training, helps the players to reduce injuries.