Physical activity and injuries and overstraining syndromes in sitting volleyball players.

Abstract

Sport is a part of active rehabilitation the aim of which is to restore self-reliance in the disabled. Sitting volleyball is one of sports, which apart from their sports advantages have also integrative properties. The level of physical activity and incidence of injuries and overstraining syndromes in top disabled volleyball players in Poland who play sitting volleyball was tested using a questionnaire. Significant involvement in physical activity through various additional forms, not only volleyball, was noted. Injuries occurring in players are related mainly to sprains and dislocations of joints. Overstraining syndromes of muscles and joints affect mainly upper and lower limbs. People with a dysfunction of one limb using the other limb for play are often additionally exposed to the overstraining of the healthy limb.