Visual enriched presentation of football related Injuries

• Published in: Journal of sports science & medicine Vol. 6
• Main Authors: Bayraktar, B, Yuecesir, I, Dinc, C, Dursun, M, Kurtoglu, M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01-01-2007
• ISSN: 1303-2968; 1303-2968

OBJECTIVE In the recent years, both, professional and amateur football became high physical performance demand-ing and battling sports, causing different sorts of injury. Football injuries vary enormously in nature, mechanism and prognosis. Being good acknowledged about injuries may help for their evaluation and to decrease injury rates, diagnos-tic pitfalls, financial loss and to develop treatment strategies. The aim of the present work was to evoke interest in and to briefly inform about football injuries by showing a set of football injuries presented with high quality informative photographic material. METHODS The presented material was collected in 12 years from a series of injuries occurred in different times, with different mechanisms and at different levels of the game. 14 injuries were presented. The graphics were either owned by the authors or copied from public media. The medical content was reviewed from main textbooks, which contained classically accepted general information about such medical cases. RESULTS A total of 14 injuries and their prognosis were presented. Two of the injuries were career ending. The rest of the presented cases recovered in a time span of 0,5-12 months totally and fully return to football was achieved. DISCUSSION The very broad spectrum of football related injuries require a good expertise and experience of related person. Not only the physicians but also everybody involved, need to be familiar with injury situations and cases. CONCLUSION Most of the football injuries result in total recovery, but none of them are negligible and one must keep in mind that any football injury can be career ending or life threatening.