RELAÇÃO ENTRE A INCIDÊNCIA DE LESÕES E AS POSIÇÕES EM JOGADORES DE VOLEIBOL MASCULINO PROFISSIONAL

Abstract

Volleyball is the sport that has stood out in recent years due to the growth in the number of athletes. The overload of training, both physical and technical, as well as the wide variety of sporting gestures present in this modality lead to an increase in the number of injuries. What is observed in the preventive protocol carried out in volleyball teams is that they are applied collectively and equally, not aiming at the specific functions of each position. However, it is known that some players are more susceptible to injuries due to the variety of functions within This research aimed to verify the between the incidence of injuries and the positions in male volleyball players in professional relationships. The study included 16 professional male volleyball athletes, with an average age of 23 years old, from the Universo / Up time / Olympico team located in Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais (MG). In the interview, a spreadsheet composed of nine of the main injuries that occurred in volleyball was used as the data collection method. The results showed that overuse injuries are the most frequent, with low back pain having the highest rate with 24%. Among the positions it was found that the hands are the athletes who suffer the highest incidence of injuries (45%) due to the fact that they are more demanding, exercising offensive and defensive functions. The liberos, on the other hand, had a lower injury rate (26) for exercising only defensive functions: thus proving the relationship presented as the objective of this research.