Assessment of orthopedic injuries in competitive amateur tennis players *

Objetivo: Estudar a incidência de lesões ortopédicas, em tenistas competitivos. Material e métodos: Por meio da análise retrospectiva, 160 tenistas amadores, mas competitivos, do Estado de São Paulo foram estudados. Destes, 64 (40%) eram do sexo feminino e 96 (60%) do masculino. A idade variou de nove a 78 anos, com média de 27,6 anos. Para a análise do material com relação ao número de lesões e ao tipo de lesão apresentada, empregaram-se os critérios da NAIRS (National Athletic Injury Report System) e, para a análise estatística dos dados, utilizou-se o teste t de Student para amostras pareadas, estabelecendo como valor de significância o índice de probabilidade (p) menor do que 0,05. Resultado: Foram relatadas 244 lesões em 122 atletas. Somente 38 (23,8%) tenistas não referiram nenhum tipo de lesão durante a sua vida competitiva. Com relação à região do corpo acometida, a lesão mais freqüente foi a muscular, relatada por 58 (23,8%) tenistas. Logo a seguir foram relatadas as lesões do pé e tornozelo (48 – 19,7% – ABSTRACT

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