2023, Vol. 10, Issue 3, Part G

Football is the second most popular game in India, particularly for being a body contact game. Football Players had to perform different types of natural and unnatural movements. For the nature of competition, unnatural body movements, lack of knowledge about fitness and foul play injuries occur at different levels, gender and age groups of football players. The game is played and organized at low cost and not well prepared grounds with comparison to other sports. At least practical experiences across rural Bengal support this view. Even at International levels players are prone to injury for the games speedy character and aggressive nature. These cause played an important role of choosing the game of football while studying sports injuries. Researchers found that most injury making game was noted to be football (49.2%) followed by basketball (27.9%) and (22.8% volleyball). Lower extremities, particularly knee 28% and ankle (21%) were accounted for most injuries. Sprain (39%) was the prime nature of injury, followed by distortion. In this study it appeared that, senior female were suffered by very higher knee injury female 39.91%, male 22.45%, male athletes were very higher trunk injury male 29.27%, female 5.77%. But in case of ankle and leg injury male and female were nearly identical. Further it was appeared that under nineteen female were suffered by very higher knee injury female 37.81%, male 22.50%, male athlete expressed very higher trunk injury male 22.58%, female 5.26%. But in case of ankle injury male were better safe, male7.50%, female 13.16% and in leg injury male and female were nearly same 30.00% and 34.21%. After conducted a comparative study it was detected that in case of knee and ankle ligament (sprain) injury female expressed higher injury female 20.00% male 16.67%. But in case of leg injury male expressed higher injury male 36.67% female 35.00%.