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              <text>FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO INJURIES AMONG HANDBALL PLAYERS&#13;
IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF MASVINGO PROVINCE,&#13;
ZIMBABWE.&#13;
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              <text>Sport injury has become an inescapable occupational menace in physical and sporting circles&#13;
due to the current high entry of people into sport for competition and entertainment reasons.&#13;
This inclination has seen a shift of interest from therapeutic process towards more of injury&#13;
protective mechanisms with regard to players’ physical uprightness. This study aimed at&#13;
identifying the main risk factors that contributed to injury occurrence during training and&#13;
competition in Masvingo Province tertiary handball between 2014 and 2015. It sought to&#13;
determine and examine the relationships between external and athlete-triggered risk factors,&#13;
injury outcomes and their impact on player performance. This study was an epidemiological&#13;
prospective cohort design with 153 college players, 18-30 years drawn from ten male and&#13;
female handball teams of Masvingo Province. It was conducted with the view to recommend&#13;
plausible preventive safe playing environments from the existing high cumulative injury&#13;
incidences players experienced. A total of 242 incidental injuries players sustained were from&#13;
contact and non-contact situations. Contact injuries were greater in matches than training in&#13;
both gender but with high figures being reported in females than men. Most injuries were&#13;
located in lower limb than upper limb appendages. The most vulnerable sites were the knee,&#13;
ankle/foot, shoulder, wrist, fingers, elbow and hip. The principal injury mechanisms that&#13;
significantly contributed to injury sustenance were plant and cutting, shooting, blocking,&#13;
turning, landing and dribbling. Findings were that injury occurrence is related to the interface&#13;
between externally and athlete-related risk factors implying that injury occurrence is not&#13;
confined to a single inciting factor, but to a host of variables. Handball training regimes need&#13;
to focus on basic proprioceptive, sensomotoric, and neuromuscular aspects to address the&#13;
frequently injured body limps. Exercise-based injury prevention programs, education on&#13;
injury aetiology, identification of injury trends and situational risk factors, should be&#13;
iii&#13;
practically instituted and ingrained as correctional concerns by coaches and associations in&#13;
handball.</text>
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              <text>2016</text>
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