Musculoskeletal system injuries of Turkish table tennis athletes
Emrah Yılmaz
, Murat Çimen, Mahmut Özdinç
Faculty of Sports Sciences, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Türkiye
Keywords: Table tennis, sports injuries, athletes
Abstract
Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the type of injuries and the distribution of the injury regions of athletes in some Turkish universities' table tennis teams during training and competitions in a year.
Material and Methods: A total of 117 volunteer athletes (51 males and 66 females) participated in the study. A personal information form and the Nordic Musculoskeletal System Questionnaire were used to evaluate the injuries. The questionnaire was created on Google Form and filled in by voluntary participants. SPSS 23.0 statistical package program was used to evaluate the data. Percentage and frequency distributions of the data and chi-square test analysis results are presented in tables. The significance level was considered as p<0.05.
Results: It is seen that table tennis athletes usually experience injuries in the upper extremities during training. It was determined that these injuries did not reveal a difference according gender, but warm-up exercises performed before training and competitions, and cooling-down exercises performed afterwards had positive effects on injury prevention.
Conclusion: Upper extremity injuries in table tennis athletes can be reduced by correct warm-up and cool-down exercises.
Cite this article as: Yilmaz E, Cimen M, Ozdinc M. Musculoskeletal system injuries of Turkish table tennis athletes.Turk J Sports Med. 2025 Agu 15th;https://doi.org/10.47447/tjsm.0880
The approval for this study was obtained from Clinical Research Ethics Board of Suleyman Demirel University (Approval number: 59, Date: 13.09.2024).
Concept – EY; Design – EY, MC; Supervision – EY, MO; Materials – EY, MC, MO; Data Collection and/or Processing – MC Analysis and İnterpretation – MC; Literature Review – EY, MO; Writing manuscript – EY, MC, MO; Critical Reviews – EY, MC, MO.All authors contributed to the final version of the manuscript and discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.
The authors declared no conflicts of interest with respect to authorship and/or publication of the article.
The authors received no financial support for the research and/or publication of this article.
