The purpose of this study is to identify sport injury and emergency treatment of male or female athletic players in primary schools, junior/senior high-schools, and colleges (common) by carrier of sport and by sex.
To achieve this purpose, male and f...
The purpose of this study is to identify sport injury and emergency treatment of male or female athletic players in primary schools, junior/senior high-schools, and colleges (common) by carrier of sport and by sex.
To achieve this purpose, male and female players registered in Korea Gymnastic Association with three or more years of sport experience were settled as population and 350 players were selected by random sampling.
To provide questionnaire to be used in this study, questions were reconstructed based on the questionnaires used in the study by Seong-Seok Oh (1995), Cheon-Hee Yoon (1996), Woo-Yeong Yoon (1994), and Yeong-Soon Lim (2003). Questionnaire survey was carried out by visiting the teams selected for survey during games with cooperation of trainers or coaches and the data with credibility in gathered data were tested by frequency analysis and cross analysis (χ2) according to the purpose of study.
Analysis was made on difference in sport injury of male or female athletic players in primary schools, junior/senior high-schools, and colleges (common) by above-mentioned method and procedure and below-mentioned conclusion was obtained.
1) In terms of seasons when sport injury is happened with male or female athletic players in primary schools, junior/senior high-schools, and colleges (common) by sport experience, partial difference was found. Sport injury were the most frequently happened is winter and players with 11 or more years of experience showed highest incidence of winter injury with 38.6% of rate.
2) In terms of cause and treatment, one or more times of injuries took the highest share and player group with four or less years of experience showed 45.6% of highest repeated injury rate.
3) In terms of treatment institute, treatment in herb medicine institutions showed highest share and player group with four or less years of experience showed highest treatment rate in herb medicine institutions with 45.6% of rate.
4) In terms of prescription by physicians, prescription of taking rest until complete recovery was most frequently made and shares of receiving prescriptions until complete recovery was highest with sport players with 10 or less years of sport experience with 53.6% of prescription rate; in terms of prescription in herb medicine institutions, player group with 4 or less years of sport experience showed no prescription of rehabilitation exercise with highest prescription rate of 48.2%.
5) In terms of institution of treatment of sport injuries with male or female athletic players in primary schools, junior/senior high-schools, and colleges (common), both male and female players showed high incidence in being treatment in herb medicine institutions, and male athletic players showed higher incidence in being treatment in herb medicine institutions with 57.6% of rate treated in comparison to female players with 49.0% of rate.
6) In case of rehabilitation exercise, independently from sport experience, only the method of treatment showed difference and both male and female players answered that acupuncture and moxibustion was the most effective method; male athletic players showed higher incidence in being treatment in herb medicine institutions with 38.2% of rate being treated in comparison to female players with 27.5% of rate.