Review article

Most common injuries in wrestling

Sonja Iža orcid.org/0000-0002-6769-1286
Ines Ivanković orcid.org/0000-0003-2611-6530

Abstract

Abstract
Introduction: Wrestling is a contact sport and basis of
every martial sport. There are free and classic wrestling
style, where the free more frequent injuries.
Aim: Investigate the causes and prevention of the most
common injuries in wrestling
Materials and methods: By electronic search of the
literature, some of the available databases such as:
Medline (PubMed, PubMed Central) and Croatian
bibliographic base have been searched. The keywords
used for the purpose of the search are: injuries in
wrestling and wrestling or wrestling injury, wrestling.
Results: 15 original surveys and 9 review articles related
to the aim of researching this work were obtained by the
shutdown process.
Conclusion: Wrestling is a sport that often leads to
injuries. Most common injuries occur on the joints of
the upper and lower extremities, for lower extremities
the most common injury is a knee injury, while for upper
it is an elbow fractures. The key role should be given to
prevention, muscle spasms, improved coordination and
flexibility.

Keywords

injury, wrestling, prevention

Hrčak ID:

238379

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/238379

Publication date:

25.5.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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