Special Issue
Binaya Kandel
Abstract
Football (soccer) is one of the most popular sports with the greatest participation globally. The types of injury that occurs in a football game are acute or traumatic and overuse injuries. Major injuries occurring in a game includes hamstring strain, quadriceps strain, ankle sprain, knee injuries, groin pain, head injury, fractures and many more. Among which hamstring injury is the most common musculoskeletal injury. The recurrence rate of hamstring strain injury has been reported to be 2 times higher than that of other injuries in English professional soccer. Participants were also explained about detail procedure of SLHB test. SLHB test was performed and total number of repetitions was noted. Data was entered and was analyzed using SPSS version 16. Out of the 29 players, 20 players (68.96%) were right leg dominant and 9 players (31.03%) were left leg dominant. The combined mean score for both the leg was found to be 98.63 (SD 55.56). The mean SLHB score for right leg dominant players was found to be 108.35 (SD 71.71) and that for the left was found to be 88.67 (SD 35.26). There was very minimum correlation among dominant and non-dominant leg (phi score = 0.3).