Determinar las lesiones deportivas producidas en los entrenamientos de atletismo categoría prejuvenil en Cañar

Abstract

The discipline of athletics is a sporting activity that requires the continuous repetition of certain motor actions to reach the mastery of the technical gesture, by periodically working this movement can entail a risk due to the appearance of injuries that prevent progression and continuation in daily work of the athlete. The research aimed to “Determine the most frequent injuries produced in athletics during the field and track tests, Pre youth category, in the Cañar Sports Federation, 2018”. The study was observational, descriptive, cross-sectional; with a sample of 30 active athletes from the Azogues canton who met the necessary criteria for this investigation. According to the results obtained, we observed that 60% of the athletes presented injuries in training, the women had a higher prevalence (75%) during the study, the injury with the highest incidence was muscle contracture (45.24%) in the thigh area (26%). The modality of medium background and obstacles represented a higher prevalence of injuries (57.14%); It was observed that the main part of the training session had greater recurrence (73.81%) of injuries and the increase in work intensity was the main factor of the same (33.33%). In addition, there was a greater predominance of lesions at the beginning of the microcycles (28.57%). In conclusion, it is vitally important to know the main variables that can make an athlete susceptible to having a sports injury in his technical and physical preparation.