Young age soccer player’s waist and lower limb muscle imbalance and non-contact injury risk evaluation

Karolis Šumauskas. Young age soccer player’s waist and lower limb muscle imbalance and non-contact injury risk evaluation. Master thesis. Thesis supervisor – Associate professor PhD. Renata Žumbakytė-Šermukšnienė. Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Medical Academy, Faculty of Nursing, Sports medicine clinic. Kaunas, 2020; 65p. Thesis aim – to evaluate young age soccer player waist and lower limb muscle imbalance and non-contact injury risk. Objectives: 4. To evaluate waist muscle condition of young age soccer players 5. To evaluate lower limb muscle condition of young age soccer players 6. To evaluate non-contact injury risk Research methods: The following tests were used to evaluate the muscle imbalance and non-contact injury risk of the research subjects: measurement of the calve flexor and extensor muscle strength – dynamometer; Thom's test; Ito and Sorensen test; Y-balance test, FMS Research subjects: Young age soccer players, playing in the Garliava’s and Prienai’s football schools. Number of research subjects: 40 subjects. Thesis conclusions: 1. After evaluating waist muscle condition of young soccer players it was established that waist muscle strength and endurance of players who participated in injury prevention was better than payers who did not participated in injury prevention. 2. After evaluating lower limb muscle condition of young soccer players it was established that lower limb muscle condition of players who participated in injury prevention was better than payers who did not participated in injury prevention. 3. After evaluating non-contact injury risk it was established that players who participated in injury prevention had less risk of non-contact injury than players who did not participated in injury prevention