The Investigation And Analysis Of The Injury Of Teenage Swimming Athletes In Shanxi Province

Background and Objective: Swimming sport in various regions of ShanxiProvince has been gradually widespread, with the increasing participants in everyrang of age. To investigate the prevalence of athletic injury with positions and reasonsin training and competition, the teenage swimmers in Shanxi Province were selectedas subjects. The investigation will benefit teenage health and development.Research methods: In this paper, the injury situation in training and competitionin150teen-agers swimming athletes between the age of7-18and42coaches inShanxi Province were investigated with the methods of interview and questionnaire.The relationship among the positions, extent, incidence, the type of injury and theswimming stroke, along with the influence of competition results, recovery afterinjury and medical supervision were analyzed. Finally, the injury characteristics, trend,and the main reason were gained.Research results:1) The degree of the injury: the low-grade injury (60.6%), the moderate injury(33.7%), the severe injuries accounted for5.7%; the acute injury (37.5%), the chronicinjury (62.5%); injuries occurred during the training (70.5%) and agonistic period(29.5%).2) The proportion types of injury which to sort high to low were: muscle injury,joint injury, ligament injury, strain, other injuries, and fractures.3) The proportion positions of injury which to sort high to low were: shoulder,knee, waist, back, limbs, abdomen, elbow injury; the positions of injury in differentspecial swimming stroke had these own features: the rate of shoulder injury washigher in freestyle, the knee injury was higher in breaststroke, as well as the lower back injury and in the butterfly were more prominent.4) The main reasons caused injury were: training factors, technical factors,physiological factors, psychological factors, other factors; and this was a coexistenceof multiple factors in usually.Research conclusions: The injured situation of teenage swimming athletes inShanxi Province were more common, the nature of injury mostly belong to mildinjury; the process of the most injury mainly was chronic injury, and the relationshipbetween the extent of injury and the training period was positive correlation; thenumber of injuries were increased with the years of training, and has a certainrelationship with the swimming stroke.