Prevalência de lesões em atletas de futevôlei

Abstract

Introduction: Footvolley is a Brazilian sport that is growing in Brazil and worldwide. Due to the significant increase in the number of practitioners, injuries within the modality also began to appear. Objectives: To analyze the prevalence of injuries in footvolley players. Methods: a search was carried out in the databases Medline (PubMed), PEDro, Scielo, BIREME, Google Scholar. The keywords included for this review were: “footvolley”, “injury”, “incidence”, “prevalence” and their correlates in Portuguese. Results: Five studies that identified the most affected anatomical regions within the modality and the behavioral pattern of injuries were included. Conclusion: According to the results of the reviewed studies, the evidence points to the knee as the main region of the body affected by injuries in footvolley, regardless of gender.