The Cause, Impact and Prevalence Of Sport Injury In Middle And Long Distance Athletics Event In The Case Of Athlete Tirunesh Dibaba Sport Training Center.

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