Basketball players injury frequency, causes and specificity depended on age

Sport injury – is one of the main reasons why athlete can not participate in practise or competitions. Sports infringement problem become more acute in daily life (Barkauskas, 1995). Injury causing mechanisms and factors knowledge allows more effectively carry out preventive work. So therefore it is important to include researchers, coaches, doctors, who are immersed in sports injuries issues (Ренстрём, 2003). Aim of the study – to compare Lithuanian children, youth and professional basketball teams injury frequency, causes and specificity depending on age. In order we achieved implementation, i.e.we find out the mostly among common basketball injuries and injury rate depended on age. We found what preventive measures are used. After the research had been made we concluded that the most commin injury in children 10-14 (45 percent) and Junior 14-18 (45 percent) was fingers injury, and in professional basketball players ankel injuries (28 percent) were he most common injury. Children‘s team had a season averge of injuries - 13±2, youth - 14±2 and professional teams - 4±2 innjury during the season. The main causes of children injuries was the lack of warm up (82 percent), youth – body contact (92 percent) and poor condition (91 percent) and for the professional basketball teams body contact (46 percent) was the main causes of injuries. Among children, youth and professional basketball players , during training proces, coaches and physiotherapists focuses on warming up and stretching exercises