Functional evaluation of shoulder muscles of young 12-14 years old athletes participating in different sports

Abstract

Research background. Every year approximately 30 and 68 percent of injuries sustained by children and youth are related to sport (MOnroe et al., 2011). Injuries to the throwing shoulder may include rotator cuff pathology, instability, glenohumeral internal rotation deficit (Kim et al., 2006). Respective overhead throwing motion causes motion adaptations at the shoulder joint that can cause injury and decreased performance (Kevin et al., 2012). An altered interaction between the dynamic and passive stabilizers of shoulder may increase incidence dynamic and passive stabilizers of shoulder may increase incidence of joint disruption (Fridman et al., 2013). Research aim. The aim of this research was to evaluate the functional state of schoulder muscles of young athletes age 12-14 participating in different sports. Reserach methods. Research data was colected over one sport season period (2013th September-2014th June) in three sports schools. During this period 95 young athletes from different sports (n=32 baseball (BA), n=32 handball (HA) and n=31 rugby (RU) players) were evaluated. [...].