Prevalencia de lesiones musculo-esqueléticas en porristas de Bucaramanga y Área metropolitana

Abstract

The practice of cheerleading is based on performing elements of dance, acrobatics, jumps, and pyramids; doing this can cause injuries during training and during or after a competition. The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries in cheerleaders from Bucaramanga and the Metropolitan Area in relation to their type, place and time of the performance of cheerleading. A questionnaire was conducted for 90 cheerleaders from Bucaramanga and the Metropolitan Area where data such as sex, age, marital status, socioeconomic level, years of cheerleading practice, and position within the routine, types of injury, body, and moment were asked of the execution and period of occurrence of the injury. The population of the three clubs where they intervened is 450 athletes, the confidence level of the study was 95%; the margin of error was 5% and the type of sampling was for convenience. Once the data were obtained, they were passed to the IBM SPSS Statistics 26 program, which showed that the prevalence of the injury is fissures with 29.7%; the prevalence of the moment of execution of the injury within the routine was the technical execution of gymnastics with 35.7%; Regarding the prevalence of the location of the injury, it was the ankle with 25.7%; the prevalence in the period of occurrence of the injury was precompetitive with 51.0%. Based on the analysis of these data, it was possible to conclude that the prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries in cheerleaders from Bucaramanga and the Metropolitan Area are fissures; the prevalence in relation to the most common injury in the technical executions of cheerleading is presented in the execution called gymnastics.