A Scientific Study On Swimming Injuries – Common Injuries And Preventive Measures with A Brief Look at India

Abstract

Swimming is a popular sport among all generations. Participants range from those who swim only occasionally for recreational purposes to those who swim regularly for fitness and to those who compete at national and international levels.  It would be logical that through participation and love of sport, injuries are as an integral part of human behavior and are bound to happen. Swimming injuries are one of the most unrecognized major public health problems as a sports injury which represents to realize significant savings in both financial and human terms. Furthermore, the injury might make the person be away from the activity.

In the Indian context, the injury situation must be graver due to lack of well-maintained playgrounds, sophisticated equipment, poor sports administration, lower budget and Malnutrition. Due to mass participation in swimming, only the natural skill are not sufficient to secure success in sport; there is a need to vigorous practice in reducing injury risk factors in swimming particularly in swimming competition and more research on swimming injuries which may decrease the injury rate through developing safety equipment and facilities. Therefore, it can be more effective if researcher from India consider this issue on the basis of “Prevention is better than Treatment of sports injuries”. In this paper, the research due to recent event will prove that if the center and state government and university sports authorities establish sports injury prevention research centers for recognize the importance of sports injury prevention, it can be improved the performance of India in national and International dimension.