Physical activity program therapeutic for injury prevention in the knees in area athletes of fund (Original)

Abstract

The research was conducted at the Provincial Academy of Athletics province of Granma, the sample consisted of 10 male athletes high performance and specialists in distance running, aged between 23-46 years (social category) and a sports age ranging between 7 and 17 years of experience in this modality. A diagnosis to his sports training study found that there is an increase of knee injuries in runners, associated with insufficient tools in the theoretical and methodological by coaches to develop their preventive work in the sporting context. To address this problem a program of physical-therapeutic activities with the aim of providing tools in the theoretical and methodological depending on their preventive work in the sporting context was developed. The proposal consists of three stages the first pre-active called, the interactive second and third post-active, in which actions are broken down physiotherapist, teacher / sports coach, sports doctor and the athlete. After applied the proposal significantly decreased the number of injured athletes, influencing their sports results.