Prevalence of injuries and musculoskeletal symptoms in amateurs athletes of bodybuilding affiliated to IFFB/BA
International Journal of Development Research
Prevalence of injuries and musculoskeletal symptoms in amateurs athletes of bodybuilding affiliated to IFFB/BA
Received 17th October, 2019; Received in revised form 29th November, 2019; Accepted 07th December, 2019; Published online 29th January, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Gean Oliveira Santos. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In the 20`s and 30´s, the weightlifters decided to migrate to bodybuilding aiming more recognition of the society through a body with developed and symmetric muscular mass. Even as others sports, bodybuilding is susceptible to injuries during the training process and this can cause financial prejudices, laborlicense and treatment costs impacting in the athlete health and quality of life. The aim of the present study was to identify the prevalence of injuries and musculoskeletal symptoms in amateurs athletes of bodybuilding. The data collect was realized with two questionnaires, one elaborate by the own authors and the second was the Corllet diagram. The sample was composed by 88 athletes with age range of 18 to 38 years. The data were tabbed and treated in Excel 2017. The results showed that 87,5% of the sample did not referred injuries and 26,14% accused pain or discomfort. The findings shows a low rate of injuries in this sports but due to the deleterious effect of them, preventive strategies should be adopted to avoid this event.
