Volleyball has received a little
interest in the sphere of sports medicine.
Volleyball is low risk sports, dominated
by overuse injuries while recovery time
from injuries is relatively long, but only a
few working days are lost by the players
to return back to play, thus leading to
abuse of the injured sites. In volleyball
overuse injuries are the most frequent
occurrences of injury. In volleyball,
injuries are traditionally divided into
contact and non-contact mechanism in
which case contact refers to player
contact. Some of the forces involved in a
non contact injury are transmitted from
the playing surface to the injured body
part.
Keeping in view the paucity of
information about sports injures in general
and volleyball playing in particular, an
attempt has been made in this area to
investigate the possible risk factors
involved in volleyball.