Incidence and Localization of Knee Joint Pain and Injury in Volleyball Players : Undergraduate Thesis

Cilj ovoga rada je utvrditi pojavnost i lokalizaciju boli i ozljeda koljenog zgloba kod odbojkaša i odbojkašica. Na uzorku ispitanika koji uključuje 76 elitnih odbojkašica i odbojkaša, seniorske dobne kategorije koji su sudionici/e u najvišem rangu odbojkaškog natjecanja Hrvatske, primjenjen je anonimni Upitnik najčešćih ozljeda koljena kod odbojkašica i odbojkaša autora Penga i sur. (2020), on-line metodom. Najvažniji nalaz u ovom istraživanju ukazuje da su 32,89% vrhunskih hrvatskih odbojkaša/ica imali neki oblik ozljede koljena. Jedna od osnovnih struktura kretanja u odbojkaškoj igri je i skok, a samim tim i doskok, pa pojavnost Bol u koljenu u doskoku, ponekad i često javlja se kod 69,74% seniora/ki te zajedno s varijablom Područje lokalizacije boli u koljenom zglobu, predstavlja dvije jedine primijenje varijable koje ukazuju na značajnu razliku između elitnih odbojkašica i odbojkaša. Potrebna su daljnja istraživanja na većem broju ispitanika i s povećanjem broja čestica upitnika koja će omogućiti daljnje spoznaje o pojavnosti i lokalizaciji boli i ozljeda koljenog zgloba kod odbojkaša i odbojkašica.The aim of this paper is to determine the occurrence and localization of knee joint pain and injuries in volleyball players. An anonymous Questionnaire of the most common knee injuries among volleyball players (Penga et al., 2020) was applied to the sample of respondents, which includes 76 elite volleyball players, senior age category participants in the highest level of volleyball competition in Croatia (Penga et al., 2020), using an online method. The most important finding in this research indicates that as many as 32.89% of top Croatian volleyball players had some form of knee injury. One of the basic structures of movement in the game of volleyball is the jump, and therefore the landing, so the occurrence of Knee pain during landing, sometimes and often occurs in 69.74% of seniors and together with the variable Area of localization of pain in the knee joint, represents the only two application variables that indicate a significant difference between elite volleyball players and male volleyball players. Further research is needed on a larger number of respondents and with an increase in the number of questionnaire items, which will enable further knowledge about the occurrence and localization of knee joint pain and injuries in volleyball players