Sport Injuries in the second Islamic CountriesWomen's sports Games

Abstract Nowadays participation in sports has increased among women thus, sport injuries which makes an inevitable part of it has increased too. Determination of sports injuries incidence has a critical importance in care programs. In this study 97 cases of sports injuries occurred during the Second Islamic Countries women's sports games were evaluated. For each case referee a special form was filled out by the physician. This form included these parameters: age, field of sport, nationality, transportation to hospital , timing of the accident (training or competition, first, middle or last part of the play), anatomic location of the injury kind of injury, history of previous injury, involvement of another player in occurring , leaving the game , warming up and physical fitness (weekly training). Then incidence of injury was calculated in contact and non contact sports separately. Incidence of injuries per participants and incidence per hours of play were calculated. Incidence of sports injuries had a significant relationship with the kind of sport (contact or non contact) (P=0.02) Mean of age of injured cases was 20.08 yr. The highest rate of injuries was reported in Badminton, Handball and Karate, and lowest of which in Chess, Swimming and, Shooting. The highest rate of injuries occurred in the lower limb (56.7%). In 94.8% of cases, soft tissue was injured. In 47.4% of cases contusion and 14.4% wound or laceration were reported. Other kinds of injury had lower rates. 81.5% of cases had warming up equal or more than 10 minutes before playing. 81.1% of cases had equal or more than 3 times hour/week training in their program. The contact sports group had significant relationship with transport to hospital (Fischer index= 0.01), history of pervious injury (P=0.006), ankle vs knee (in lower limb joints) (P=0.05)•leaving the game (P=0.0001), another player involved in injury (P=0.00). The most frequent sports injuries was soft tissue injuries and occurred most frequently in the lower extremities:and sports injuries occurs more frequently and more severely in contact sports than non contact sports.