THE MOST COMMON INJURIES IN VOLLEYBALL AND THE STRATEGIES TO PREVENT THEM. Literature review

Volleyball is known for its benefit in health but on the other hand it is associated with a risk for injuries both acute and overused. Strategies to reduce or prevent the occurrence of acute and overuse injuries are very important in this field because it decrease the loss-time in competitions. The purpose of this study is to identified which are the most common volleyball injuries and the strategies that support the prevention of damages in this sport. Researches are selected through Scopus, PubMed, Google scholar and Web of Science. There are included articles from different countries focused on injuries in volleyball. There are many injuries occur in volleyball but most of the researches considering in this study evaluates ankles sprain as the most common injuries in volleyball. Even though the other injuries are not so much left behind. An important approach to prevent all injuries in amount of 40% in doing an appropriate warm-up and considering it as an important part of the training session. The information in this research contributes to trainers, researchers and coaches who want to make a prevention program addressing to the most common injuries in volleyball in order to reduce the number of incidents in this sport.