Prevalencia de las lesiones y factores asociados en deprtistas de 13-17 años de la Federación Deportiva del Cañar 2014

Abstract

Background: Inresearchin medicine there is a significant sector of the population that deserves to be studied as are athletes. In the province of Cañar don’t have knowledge of the factors associated with the prevalence of injuries

Objective: Establishing the prevalence of injuries and associated factors inathletes13-17years of the Sports Federation of Canar.

Method and Materials: It is across-sectional study of prevalence in the Sports Federation of Cañar, in all disciplines. The information was obtained through surveys when ther prior informed consent. The information was summarized and tabulatedusingMicrosoftExcel2010 and SPSS 15.0, containing basal tables and a table of results.

Result: The 54.9% of athletes were injured; 29.7% of injuries are 1 6 years old; 63.5% of injuries were male; 33.89% of the lesions are of moderate severity; 75.4% of injuries occurred in training; 15.2% of injuries occurred in Judo, ankle sprains accounted for47.4% and the most frequent; practice contact sport did not result as a risk factor(p =0.000000) whereas longer training them selves (OR =2.73; 95% CI =2.17-3.43)).

Findings: Males are injured more than women, age more injuries is16 years, the most likely tube injured anatomical site is the ankle, the most frequent type of injury is as prain, sports discipline with Judo is more lesions, most lesions are of moderate severity and injury risk factor is the longer training for more exposure.