Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: April | Volume: 11 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 299-305
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20210435
Prevalence of Knee Pain in Football Players of Various Age Group
Bhakti Mangesh Naik1, Manali Akre2, Ajay Kumar3
1Graduate, DPO’s Nett College of Physiotherapy, Kolshet Road, Opposite Everest World, Thane, India
2Assistant Professor, DPO’s Nett College of Physiotherapy, Kolshet Road, Opposite Everest World, Thane, India
3Principal, DPO’s Nett College of Physiotherapy, Kolshet Road, Opposite Everest World, Thane, India
Corresponding Author: Bhakti Mangesh Naik
ABSTRACT
Background: Football is the most commonly played sport at both elite and grassroots level in many countries. Football is a sport that involves intermittent walking, jogging, running, and sprinting. Football players are at high risk for lower extremity injuries because they turn on an axis of rotation, repeatedly jump and land. One of the most common sites of injury is the knee. To identify instruments like pain, function, and activity level fulfilling these criteria, Knee pain were assessed with published reviews of knee instruments IKDC (International Knee Documentation Committee) and self – reported pain questionnaire. This study contains data only applicable to the knee.
Aim: To find out the prevalence of knee pain in football players of various age group.
Objectives: To find the prevalence of knee pain in football players using self – reported pain questionnaire and IKDC and also to find out influence of gender in football players of various age group.
Materials and methods: 250 football players were selected as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria and consent was taken.
Knee pain was assessed with the self reported pain questionnaire and IKDC Form. The data were obtained and statistically analysed.
Result: The study results show that knee pain is prevalent in football players of various age group.
Conclusion: The above study concludes knee pain is prevalent in football players, it’s more prevalent in male also common in dominant side of knee and age of onset is 10-15 years of age group.
Key words: Knee pain, IKDC, Pain Questionnaire, Football Players.