A utilização de exercícios de estabilização para a prevenção de entorses do tornozelo por inversão em atletas de voleibol: revisão da literatura

Abstract

The ankle joint is susceptible to damage, it accounts for 25% of all sports injuries, 44% of injuries in volleyball. It is estimated that 78% of athletes have had at least an ankle sprain throughout his career, among which are evidenced by inversion sprains, which are of great clinical predominantly due to its high incidence and economic costs, because of, entailed by the removal of daily activities limitation. The ankle sprain rehabilitation is complex and approximately 40% of individuals with a history of sprains suffer from some type of clinical instability, Therefore, the aim of this review was. A narrative review of the literature of this study was performed by searching in the databases PubMed, Medline, Lilacs and Scielo including articles with the following keywords: proprioception, inversion ankle sprain and volleyball. The theme of this research was conducted from April to July 2011, without restrictions on publication date and language. For this review 33 studies were analyzed wich contained the three keywords, highlighting those that focused on the development of stabilization exercises in order to prevent ankle sprains in volleyball players. Due to popularity of volleyball, the risk factors for injuries should be established to enable the design of effective preventive measures to minimize the costs involved with sports injuries. Based on literature, stabilization exercises were effective in ankle sprains prevention , restoring joint stability mechanisms and therefore improving athletes performance.