Year: 2024 | Month: May | Volume: 14 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 345-351
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20240545
Incidence of Musculoskeletal Injuries in Rope Mallakhamb Players and Associated Risk Factors
Shravani Arun Bankar, Dr. Ujwal Yeole2
1Intern, 2Professor,
Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth’s Indutai Tilak college of Physiotherapy, Pune.
Corresponding Author: Shravani Arun Bankar
ABSTRACT
Background: Mallakhamb is a traditional sport originating from India and gained worldwide recognition on the sidelines of Berlin Olympics held in the year 1936. The sport of Mallakhamb was originally practiced to develop the strength, agility and flexibility of wrestlers and has now developed into a sport with championships held annually at District, State and National levels throughout India. Understanding the prevalence and nature of injuries in Rope Mallakhamb is crucial for development of effective injury prevention strategies, training protocols, and rehabilitation approaches.
Purpose: To evaluate incidence of musculoskeletal injuries in rope mallakhamb players and identify associated risk factors.
Objective: To determine Incidence of different type of musculoskeletal injuries in rope mallakhamb players. To evaluate associated risk factors.Â
Setting: Rope Mallakhamb practice centers in Pune.
Method: We carried out a cross sectional study in 60 athletes who were engaged in the game of Rope mallakhamb and had experience of more than one year. A pre designed questionnaire was circulated among the players via google forms and players were asked to fill the form to the best of their knowledge.
Participants: Age group 15-30 years were taken for the study. Players with experience of less than one year were excluded from the study.
Outcome measure: The primary outcome measure of this study was a pre designed sports specific questionnaire.
Results: In upper limb most, common injuries were wrist fractures (10%) followed by wrist sprains (8%) then forearm fractures, (6%) finger dislocation (6%), elbow dislocation (2%). In lower limb calf strain was most common injury (14%) followed by ankle sprain (12%), ankle fracture (8%), hamstring strain (8%), toe dislocation (8%) and knee joint fractures (6%). In trunk most common injury reported was back sprain (12%) of all the reported injuries.
Conclusion: This study concluded that the incidence of strain and sprain injuries is most common with involvement of distal joints of upper and lower extremities.
Key words: Rope mallakhamb, Sports injuries.