Abstract:
The main purpose of this study to investigate the cause, impact and prevalence of sport injury
in the case of athlete Tirunesh Dibaba sport training center. It is now understood that sports
injury interventions will not have significant public health impact if they are not widely
accepted and adopted by target sports participants. Thus, it is important to investigate the
injury related to that any sport especially Athletes for best and full achievement of objectives
settled by athletes training organization. The objective of the study was investigation of the
cause, impact and prevalence of injury in the case of Athletes Tirunesh Dibaba sport training
center. The research design used was descriptive research design in combination with nonprobabilistic purposive sampling technique. The data collected through instrument like
questioner, interview and observation for both primary and secondary data and populations
of the study were account around 80 in number that composed of Athlete trainee who
attained at least one year of services in the Tirunesh Dibaba, academic (coaches’) and
supportive staff (medical). Data collected were entered in to SPSS version 20 software and
analyzed and presented using statistical data presentation techniques like percentage,
standard deviation and mean others. The result of the analysis shows the causes of sport
injury related to training field, intensity of training, environmental weather, sport safety,
balanced diet for Athletes, improper recovery, training rehabilitation strength and flexibility
and the impact of sport injury are takes long time of recovery, reduce the efficiency, adds
extra cost to the center. Finally the mitigation result obtained includes: Warming up is must
be done before training , take care during training, well arranged health center with
qualified physiotherapy required, excellent coaching approach, awareness creation on
sensitive body part, Coach psychological motivation
