Injury and its prevention possibilities for physical education lessons

Investigation object - injury prevention and physical education lessons. Aim - to analyse injuries and their prevention during physical education lessons. Research method - the study was conducted at Jonava schools, 8th and 9th grade pupils were interviewed. Questionnaire was invoked as a research method. The objectives of this paper are: 1. To analyse boys and girls opinion about the prevalence of injuries in physical education lessons using gender study. 2. To investigate boys and girls opinion about the nature of injuries and their locality in physical education lessons using gender study. 3. To find out boys and girls opinion about the causes of injuries during physical education lessons using gender study. 4. To provide boys and girls opinion about the prevention capabilities of injuries in physical education lessons using gender study. Conclusions: 1.Boys have higher risk of sport-related injuries during physical education lessons than girls. It is reported that most pupils got injured only once during gym class. Majority of pupils suffered injuries at the gym. 2.The most prevailing injuries suffered by pupils were in wrist, hand, tarsus, calf or fingers location. The least number of pupils suffered from shoulder joint, elbow, head, neck or foot trauma. Higher rate of carf and tarsus injury were suffered by boys while girls were more likely to experience head, neck or hand injuries. 3. Most pupils hold an opinion that the causes of injuries during physical education lessons are wrong exercise techniques as well as professional incompetence of the educator. Girls had stated that tiredness is the reason of trauma during physical education lessons. 4. Teachers do not devote sufficient attention to pupils while doing a warm-up. The vast majority of pupils indicated that teachers do not supervise them on regular basis. Some pupils think that teachers always show how to exercise correctly due to high risk physical education-related traumas. Pupils indicated that if physical education lessons were organised in smaller groups, the likelihood of injuries would be lowe