Incidência de lesões musculoesqueléticas em um grupo de praticantes de muay thai de fortaleza

Abstract

The muay thai is a struggle originate from Thailand that uses the entire body. The number of practitioners of this struggle in the world is growing because of the many benefits your practice brings to the individual, such as improved fitness, weight loss, among others. But being sports much contact there is a risk of musculoskeletal injuries. In this sense, the study aims to investigate whether there is a high occurrence of musculoskeletal injuries in its practitioners. For this work methodology was used as the quantitative approach, which was applied a questionnaire prepared with closed questions, having your data analyzed and measured, without interpretation, just by observation. Came to the result that the number of muay thai practitioners who have suffered some kind musculoskeletal injury during life is small, and suffered practicing muay thai is even lower