Caracterização epidemiológica de lesões desportivas no futebol segundo posicionamento tático de jogo

Abstract

Background: At soccer, the tactile position is related to the specific functional attributions, which may cause sports injuries (SI). The main purpose of this paper was to analyze the incidences and describe the typical soccer SI nosographic profile by relating them with the tactile soccer position. Methods: 232 male soccer players (129 professionals and 103 amateurs) from different sport team base categories of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul - Brazil. They were displayed in groups according to their tactile position (goalkeeper, central defenders, fullbacks, defensive midfielders, midfielders, forwards). Besides anthropometric features, some information about SI was taken by using Survey of Morbidity adapted to soccer. Results were analyzed by ANOVA and either Student-Newman-Keuls Test or Dunn Test. Injuries incidences were taken by Goodman Test. Results: Despite the absolute number of SI incidences have been higher among midfielders, the highest SI incidences were among forwards. Most prevalent injuries were joint nature, in lower limbs, except for the goalkeepers, who presented upper limbs injuries. Regarding to the etiologic mechanism, trauma prevalence was among every group. Most athletes (195) presented recurrent injuries. Logistic regression analysis showed that the weekly activity hours regarding to soccer was the most predictive variable for SI relapse incidence (p=0,022). Conclusion: SI incidence was higher among forwards. Lower limbs joint injuries due to trauma and high severity were more prevalent in all line positions. The weekly activity hours regarding to soccer was the etiologic feature more directly associated to recurrences.