• Sharnpreet Kaur
• Waghmare Sumedhkumar Balajirao

Abstract Field hockey is widely spread Olympic sports played as recreational and professional level. It is fastest team sports and that is more prone to injuries. The main objective of the study to find out prevalence and incidence of illness, acute and overuse injuries and the areas which will more vulnerable to injuries. A prospective cohort study on the 60 male field hockey players for the 6 week of time period. Prevalence and severity of the illness and injury was evaluated by the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre questionnaire on health problems on weekly basis with the time interval of 2 week. The study found that 92 cases of injury and illness were reported in 6th week. Total 15 cases of illness which includes respiratory and gastrointestinal. 42 and 35 cases of acute and overuse injury were reported. Hand/fingers(n=10) area was more prone to acute injuries. In overuse lower back pain(n=10) and hip/groin(n=10) was more susceptible. In both the injuries and illness, the players reduce their training volume. Only 2% of the population had severe loss in their training days. The study conclude that incidence and prevalence of acute injuries was more among players followed by overuse and Illness. Training volume of the players were reduced at mild extent which further reduced the performance in the competition. Majority of the players loss the 1-day training on weekly basis. Key words- field hockey, injury, illness, prevalence.

field hockey, injury, illness, prevalence.

"Prevalence, Burden of illness and injury in Indian male field hockey players: A prospective study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 8, page no.117-125, August-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2008319.pdf

"Prevalence, Burden of illness and injury in Indian male field hockey players: A prospective study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 8, page no. pp117-125, August-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2008319.pdf