Analysis of Injuries and Wellness in Blind Athletes during an International Football Competition.
Author: Muñoz-Jiménez, Jesús; Gámez-Calvo, Luisa; Rojas-Valverde, Daniel; León, Kiko; Gamonales, José M.
Abstract: Five-a-side football for blind people is the only adapted football modality present at the
Paralympic games. Fa5 is a collaborative-opposition sport in which its participants play with no
vision, which causes numerous impacts. At the London 2012 Paralympic Games, it was the sport with
the highest incidence of sports injuries. The main objective of this work is to analyse the association
between pain perception; spatio-temporal, mechanical, and metabolic workload with injuries; and
wellness in players during an international Fa5 competition. The following variables, monitored
during an International Fa5 Tournament, were analysed: general well-being, perception of pain and
injuries, and the spatio-temporal and metabolic workload. The results show that the incidence of
injuries increases as the tournament progresses, where injured players reported greater muscle pain
and stress before the matches started. Besides, the players’ internal and external load did not explain
the incidence of injury. Still, the values obtained in the wellness questionnaire, the perception of pain,
and stress suggested they contributed to the incidence of injury.
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