Prevalence of Injury among Football Players and its Relationship with Core Muscles Stability

Background: The relationship between core stability and injury prevalence has yet to be quantified in the available literature. The current literature does not demonstrate whether or not core strength relates to susceptibility of sports injury. Questions remain regarding the most important components of core stability, the role of sport specificity, and the measurement of core stability in relation to injury prevalence.

Objectives: To evaluate the relationship between core muscles stability and injury prevalence in male collegiate athletes.

Setting: AFZ Fitness center, Moodabidri

Method: A simple random sample of 30 volunteer football playing, aged between 18 to 30 years, from recognized teaching institution were recruited and asked to perform plank tests. The test results were correlated with their injury prevalence and statistically analyzed.

Results: Correlations between core muscles stability and injury prevalence is moderate to good degree of negative relationship, Spearman's rho (p) = - 0.75 (P<0.0001)

Conclusions: There appears to be a strong negative relationship between core muscles stability and injury susceptibility; however, more research is needed to provide a definitive answer on the nature of this relationship.