Injuries in sports karate

Karate is one of the most popular sport. It belongs to contact martial arts, which causes a number of injuries. Injuries do not occur only during the match; they mostly occur during training, warm-up, or training of techniques or situations. Factors that affect the incidence of injuries are many, wh...

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Main Author: Tatiana Tapajčiková
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Matej Bel University 2022-07-01
Series:Slovak Journal of Sport Science
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Online Access:https://ojs.umb.sk/index.php/sjss/article/view/700
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description Karate is one of the most popular sport. It belongs to contact martial arts, which causes a number of injuries. Injuries do not occur only during the match; they mostly occur during training, warm-up, or training of techniques or situations. Factors that affect the incidence of injuries are many, whether it is age, gender, experience of the athlete, weight, physical fitness, or mental state of the athlete. The most common areas of the body injured are face and head, lower extremities, the trunk, upper extremities. Awareness of coaches and athletes about injuries in their treatment and prevention will help reduce the incidence of injuries in karate, as well as in other sports.
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spelling doaj.art-8e5ebab2ff7f4ddd981bf917b9544dc32022-12-22T03:32:25ZengMatej Bel UniversitySlovak Journal of Sport Science2453-93252022-07-0181701Injuries in sports karateTatiana TapajčikováKarate is one of the most popular sport. It belongs to contact martial arts, which causes a number of injuries. Injuries do not occur only during the match; they mostly occur during training, warm-up, or training of techniques or situations. Factors that affect the incidence of injuries are many, whether it is age, gender, experience of the athlete, weight, physical fitness, or mental state of the athlete. The most common areas of the body injured are face and head, lower extremities, the trunk, upper extremities. Awareness of coaches and athletes about injuries in their treatment and prevention will help reduce the incidence of injuries in karate, as well as in other sports.https://ojs.umb.sk/index.php/sjss/article/view/700karateinjuriespreventionrehabilitation
spellingShingle Tatiana Tapajčiková
Injuries in sports karate
Slovak Journal of Sport Science
karate
injuries
prevention
rehabilitation
title Injuries in sports karate
title_full Injuries in sports karate
title_fullStr Injuries in sports karate
title_full_unstemmed Injuries in sports karate
title_short Injuries in sports karate
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topic karate
injuries
prevention
rehabilitation
url https://ojs.umb.sk/index.php/sjss/article/view/700
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