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- Abstract:
- Gymnastics is a sport of growing popularity in youth, especially with the recent success of the United States men's and women's gymnastics teams in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games. There is limited data documenting the nature and frequency of gymnastics injuries, as well as potential causal factors. This is particularly troubling when it comes to youth participants, due to the potential of these injuries to permanently affect not only their athletic career, but their normal skeletal maturation process as well. The current study seeks to determine how several different factors including age in relation to skill level, which has not been in examined in current published research, contribute to the incidence of injury in youth and adolescents. New concepts such as this one could provide a completely different perspective into youth injuries and allow current and future researchers, as well as those individuals directly involved with gymnastics, to adapt the way in which they approach these injuries. SOAP notes were collected from 2 weeks of a gymnastics summer camp, and 758 gymnasts between the ages of 7-17 were included in this study. Injury rate, type of injury (sprain/strain, fracture, etc.), anatomical location of injury, event, onset of injury (acute/chronic), age, skill level, and gender were documented. Skill level was based on the gymnast's placement into various training groups at the beginning of each 1-week session. Age skill ratio was calculated by dividing the age of the gymnast by a numerical value assigned to the gymnast's skill level. Using SPSS, frequencies for each of the variables were obtained. Cross tabulations were used to determine if there was a relationship between the independent variables age, gender, skill level, and age/skill ratio and the occurrence, type, or location of injury. The results indicated that there was no statistical relationship between any of these variables. Although no significant relationships were found between age, skill, gender, or age/skill ratio and occurrence of injury, this study and those before it still provide some useful insight into the most common injuries in gymnastics and certain populations who may be at greater risk of injury.
- Thesis:
- Thesis (M.S.)--Barry University, 2011.
- Bibliography:
- Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-56).
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- Barry University
- Holding Location:
- Barry University Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- Copyright Samantha Hopkins. Permission granted to Barry University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder.
- Resource Identifier:
- RC1218.C45 H66 2011_HopkinsSamantha ( BU-Local )
- Classification:
- RC1218.C45 H66 2011 ( lcc )
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