Selected Sports Injuries & Their Preventive & Rehabilitative Measures

Soccer is characterized as high intensity, intermittent, ball and contact sport. Its fast and vigorous nature requires accelerating sprint, rough tackling, and power of kicking and endurance to sustain skillful play for ninety minutes causing the players injury prone. Medical treatment of injuries is of prime importance in this era. At the same time the prevention, protection and correction of injuries and the preparation of players for practice in its full range of intensity are now indispensable. Not only to optimist regaining performance of soccer, should adequate care of injury players be insured to avoid future fatal conditions for the welfare of players. Keeping in view the increased popularity of soccer in India and its prevailing status in our country, it was deemed responsible to investigate on soccer injuries preventive and rehabilitative measures among soccer players of elite club of India.