Coaches’ and Athletes’ Perception Concerning the Causes of Accidents in Combat Sports

AbstractDuring his physical activity, a sportsman makes physical efforts of different intensity that may lead to the wear of his body, sometimes accompanied by the deterioration of his health condition, which may be irreversible, especially when the training and the participation to contests are not managed according to scientific principles, but guided only by empiricism and improvisations. So, the risk of accidents is permanently a concern taken into account, being generated sometimes by unknown causes, and at other times by known but ignored causes, such as insufficient technical training, exaggerations in the balancing of the effort, insufficient physical warmup, aggressiveness during the competition, precarious material endowments, forced weight loss, inadequate medication etc. The detection and the prevention of accidents, the therapeutic conduct, and the recovery of a sportsman after such events are a few directions that need to be taken into consideration in order to assure and optimize performances. The goal of this paper is to detect and establish a hierarchy of the reasons of the accidents in wrestling sports, highlighting the most frequently encountered ones