Injuries After Playing Football

World Cup match has ended, the memory of the actions of footballers will still be recorded. There are playing quite dangerous even at risk of injury.

Not a few new players after the game detected after injury due to collision or tekelan when the field is considered not severe. What are the most injuries happen to a footballer?

Risk of injury is a threat that always haunts a professional footballer. Not only due to physical collisions with other players, but also due to over-exert the muscles to work hard throughout the game.

The most common result of physical impact is an acute injury or a traumatic nature. While the imposition of muscles and joints in every game can trigger cumulative nature of the injury.

According to a study in California, sports injuries in football are more prevalent in official matches the 35.3 cases in 1,000 games. While at practice, the injury occurred just as much as 2.9 cases in 1,000 training sessions.

Quoted from Sportsinjurybulletin, Monday (12/07/2010) suffered various injuries are:

   1. Minor injuries which caused players to be absent for less than a week that is most often the case 60.15 per cent.
   2. Injuries are being sidelined a week with a duration of up to one month as much as 26.17 percent.
   3. Severe injuries to rest players more than a month occurred as much as 13.67 percent.

The most vulnerable parts of the body is a foot injury. The percentage reached 77 percent, compared to only 21 percent of knee and ankle or ankle by 18 percent.

But compared to other body parts, a knee injury tends to cause a player to miss the maximum period. Injuries in this section are also most often require surgery to resolve it.

At the ankle, the outer parts are more susceptible strain than in the side or middle. Damage to the ligaments on the outside also tend to be more dangerous than the ligaments on the inside.

Meanwhile, most muscle damage occurs in the thigh (groin) which is 53 percent. Another frequent muscle tear in the game of football is the hamstring (42 percent) and the quadriceps or thigh muscles on the front side (5 percent).

Another study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine reveals, most injuries occurred in 15 minutes early and 15 minutes before the game ended.

Risk in the early minutes was the result of hard games with high intensity, while the risk before the game ends is generally triggered by fatigue.