A STUDY OF SPORT INJURY FOR BASEBALL PLAYERS IN TAIWAN

• Main Authors: Chang Hsieh-Chin, 張協進
• Other Authors: Lin Wen-Lang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97606328648070241018

碩士 === 國立臺灣體育學院 === 運動管理學系碩士班 === 98 === 　　The purpose of this study was to explore the state of injury, prevention, and treatment once a baseball player got injured. The findings of this study can be referential to the prevention of and dealing with sports injury. The questionnaire of baseball player sports injury designed by the author was adopted as a research tool. The subjects of this research involved baseball players form senior high schools, colleges, and Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). A total of 835 questionnaires were given out while 645 of which were effectively retrieved. The effective questionnaire rate was 81.65%. SPSS 12.0 for Windows package soft was used to analyze the descriptive statistics and Chi-square (χ2) for data collected. 　　The results and findings of the present study were as follow: 1.The distribution of injury: Players were most likely to get injured when they were practicing (66.05%), and pitching was the main factor to cause injury (34.1%). The practice schedule of most players could be affected for 7 days or more (40.89%), but most of the injury would not influence players’ games (50.87%). Most players hurt their shoulders (21.9%), and pulled muscle was the main type of injury (33.8%). 2.Dangerous factors of sports injury (experiences of getting injury): The main reason to cause a sports injury was lack of warming up (25.8%), and 80.8 percent of the injured body parts would get injured again. 3.The treatment and medication of sports injury: Most of the players would instantly adopt ice packing on injured body parts when they get injured (77.3%) and most of them (47.7%) would turn to their trainers to treat their injuries. There were 84.3 % of players didn’t get enough rest after getting injured, and the main reason of which was self-discipline (46.4%). Most of the players (26.9%) would get recovered in one week. 4.Recognition and treatments of sports injury: Most of the players (67.3%) gathered information about prevention of sports injury from their trainers, and most of them (60.2%) regarded their recognition of prevention of sports injury as normal. All players would warm up their bodies before playing sports, but most of them (39.5%) would take 5 to 10 minutes to warm up. Athletic tapping was applied on injured body parts as protections by most players (49.1%) before they play sports. After playing sports, most players (78.4%) would ice pack their injured body parts. 5.Players got injured more easily while practicing than playing games, players of different defense positions of different situations (playing games or practice) would get different injuries and the body parts injured would also varied. No discrepancy existed between different levels of sports injury and their injured body parts.