O impacto da fisioterapia preventiva na ocorrência de lesões de atletas futebolistas competidores: uma revisão narrativa

Abstract

The present study has as its initial objective the understanding of the high incidence rate of injuries within professional football. In which it was taken into account its beginning as a physical activity in the 19th century, and its evolution until today when the sport became a profession, and because it is a paid activity, it demands high performance and a high degree of demand, due to the great impact that it brings to a commercial scope. In order to point out the impact of preventive physiotherapy on the occurrence of injuries in high-performance professional athletes, it aims to understand the factors that favor the injury condition, through the analysis of the physiotherapeutic strategies addressed in it, and to explore alternative prevention methodologies as a form of training. The same study belongs to the research class of the narrative review type, qualitative, of an applied and exploratory nature, carried out through the databases of Google Scholar, PubMed, and academic repositories, in which it allows observing the need to propagate a work concept attending to the particularity of each player even in the midst of collective work, through prevention using conventional and alternative means of training studies such as Effects of core training vs. plyometrics on balance and functional performance in soccer athletes, was used by the review with the aim of reducing the number of injuries, such as hamstring injuries and, consequently, the athletes' performance, based on the assumption that the injury rate increases considerably during competition periods, especially during training, due to the changes that the sport has undergone in the historical context, and consequently increasingly demanding that players work and take their bodies close to their physical limits. And through the review, it provides and points out results of significant improvement in dynamic balance and functional stability in athletes.