Lesões musculoesqueléticas em atletas paralímpicos: uma revisão da literatura

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Paralympic sport emerged during the rehabilitation process of the British military involved in warfare. Since then, the increasing competition has allowed the inclusion of people with disabilities in high-income disputes. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the present study was to review the literature on the profile of musculoskeletal injuries in para-Olympic sport. METHODOLOGY: The search of publications on musculoskeletal injuries in Paralympic athletes was carried out in the Scielo and Medline database. The search keywords were: "Musculoskeletal", "Injury" and "Paralympic". The inclusion criteria were based on articles written in English and Portuguese without restriction of the year of publication and with a theme pertinent to musculoskeletal injuries in Paralympic athletes. RESULTS: We found 49 articles from the collections in the Scielo database. Four articles in Portuguese were included in the study, and 138 articles were included in the Medline database and 7 articles were included in English according to the inclusion criteria. CONCLUSION: The articles are scarcely detailed in relation to the strategies used for the monitoring, intervention and prevention of injuries in Paralympic athletes. Most of the articles corroborate the findings about musculoskeletal injuries in relation to the mechanism of injury and sport practiced, whether they are summer or winter paralympic games, pre-competition or competition, intrinsic and extrinsic factors of the athlete and influence of external aspects such as the use of orthoses, prostheses.