Caracterização das lesões em atletas de futebol de alto rendimento

Abstract

Introduction: Football is a sport known worldwide for its beauty and plasticity, but it also has a high rate of injuries. The most frequent injuries are strains, sprains and contusions, mainly in the lower limbs. These injuries generated high financial costs for the clubs and had their sporting performance. Prevention involves identifying risk factors and muscle strength imbalance is one of them. Objective: to describe the injuries presented in high-performance professional soccer players. Methodology: observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study carried out in the medical department of the football club Botafogo da Paraíba, which has as research instruments an evaluation form and the isometric manual dynamometer (E-LASTIC) for the evaluation measures of strength of strength 12 muscular athletes who were admitted to the club's medical department from February to May 2023. Results: the most common characteristics of sports injuries observed in high-performance soccer athletes were of a muscular nature, due to an overload mechanism, in the region of the thigh and during competition. In addition, a description of four of these players regarding muscle strength asymmetry was performed using the E-LASTIC report. Conclusion: It is essential for sports physiotherapists to have knowledge about injury screening and dynamometric evaluation instruments, to help identify injuries, strength metrics and asymmetries and thus direct their decision-making in the treatment and/or prevention of injuries in high-performance athletes.