Epidemiologia de lesões musculoesqueléticas em praticantes amadores de futebol

The present study analyzed the athletic injuries prevalence among soccer practitioners according with the practice frequency and physical activity level. Studied sample included 126 regular and amateur soccer players in different sport centers from Campo Grande, MS, Brazil. The volunteers were distributed in four groups, according with week frequency of soccer practice: G1, one day; G2, two days; G3, three days; G4, four or more days of soccer practice for 10 until 60 minutes per day. Physical activity level was investigated with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) while athletic injuries were studied with Health Survey. Soccer practice was not associated with physical activity level; G4 showed higher values of metabolic spending. 96 athletic injuries were verified in 87 soccer players (69%), with occurrence of 1.52 injury/ practitioner. Muscle (36%) and articular (34%) damages were the more prevalent injury types; contact constituted the major etiologic mechanism to injury installation. As conclusion, the weekly practice magnitude had not associated with sports injuries occurrence in amateur soccer players.