Common injuries among cricket players in Bangladesh

Abstract

Purpose: To find out the common sports injuries among the women cricket players in Bangladesh. Objective: To find out the percentage of common injuries among woman cricket player; to check out the nature of injuries and vulnerability of injury and to identify which body part of the body is being more injured and the nature of management. Methodology: A quantitative cross-sectional study design was chosen to accomplish the objectives of the study. Fifty seven subjects were selected through convenience sampling procedure from the injured women cricket player in BCB, BKS and BKSP by sing a structural questionnaire to collect data. Results: Out of the 57 participant the mean age was 19.14 (±3.41) years and the age range is (13-28) years. And the regional distribution of injury was Head and Neck was 59.65%, Elbow 36.84%, Wrist 80.70%, Hand and Finger 31.57%, Shoulder 84.21%, Spine, back and Trunk 57.89%, Hip and Thigh 94.73%, Ankle and Foot 91.00% and Hip, Ankle and Knee and Shoulder region was more vulnerable for injury and ankle was frequently being injured. The finding also reflects that the treatment was consisting only medication, Physiotherapy and combine therapy (both medication and physiotherapy) 19.3% (n=11) taken only medication, 15.8%(n=9) taken Physiotherapy and 64.9% (n=38) taken combine therapy and Physiotherapy was the most popular and effective treatment option or the participant and the percentage was 49.1% (n=28) among the 57 subject. Conclusion: Cricket demands the greater physical effort for playing during their vital stage in carrier. In this study showed that hip and thigh, knee, and ankle, shoulder in the more injury risk, so it is necessary to take very careful steps to prevent this injury and applied physiotherapy treatment option as it seems to most popular and effective to the participant.