Centre for Fundamental and Continuing Education, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia.
Faculty of Languages and Communication, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia.
Front Public Health. 2022 Aug 10;10:835119. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.835119. eCollection 2022.
The non-complexity of tennis, coupled with its health benefits, renders it appealing and encourages varying competitions at different levels of age, gender, and expertise. However, the rapid increase in the participation rates witnesses a surge in injury occurrences, prompting the need for in-depth analysis to facilitate immediate intervention. We employed a media content analysis technique in which tennis-associated articles published in the last 5 years were examined. A total of 207 news reports were gathered and screened for analysis. Subsequently, 71 articles were excluded from the study due to content duplications or summary updates of existing news articles, while 23 news articles were also excluded from the study due to inappropriateness. Finally, 113 news reports directly related to injury in tennis were coded and analyzed. We examined various types of injuries reported from the screened articles with respect to their status (fresh, recurrent, and recovery) across expertise levels i.e., elite, or amateur. Similarly, the incidence of injury occurrences based on the types of tournaments the players engage in was also investigated. A chi-square analysis was employed to achieve the objectives of the study. Occurrences of tennis-associated injuries are disseminated across expertise levels [ = 16.542; = 0.555], with knee, hip, elbow, and shoulder injuries being highly prevalent in both elite and amateur players. Nevertheless, it was noted that elite players suffered a staggering 72.60% of injury-related problems, while amateur players sustained 27.40% of injuries. Moreover, the status of injury spreads based on types of tournaments [ = 3.374; = 0.497], with higher occurrences of fresh and recurrent injuries, while low recovery rates were observed. The findings further demonstrated that injuries are sustained regardless of tournament types [ = 39.393; = 0.321]. However, most of the injuries occurred at international tournaments (85%). Whereas, only 5.30% of the injuries occurred at national/regional tournaments while 9.70% were unidentified. It could be deduced from the findings of this investigation that elite players are more prone to injuries compared with amateur players. Furthermore, the most common tennis-related injuries affect the lower, trunk, and upper regions of the body, respectively. A large number of the reported tennis injuries are fresh and recurrent, with a few recoveries. The international tennis tournaments are highly attributed to injury occurrences as opposed to the national/regional tournaments. The application of the media-based data mining technique is non-trivial in projecting injury-related problems that could be used to facilitate the development of an injury index peculiar to the tennis sport for prompt intervention.
网球运动简单易懂，对身心健康有益，吸引了各个年龄段、性别和技术水平的人参与不同层次的比赛。然而，参与率的快速增长导致了受伤人数的增加，这就需要深入分析以便及时进行干预。我们采用了媒体内容分析技术，对过去 5 年发表的与网球相关的文章进行了研究。共收集了 207 篇新闻报道，并进行了分析筛选。随后，由于内容重复或现有新闻文章的摘要更新，有 71 篇文章被排除在研究之外，另有 23 篇文章因不合适而被排除。最后，对 113 篇直接涉及网球损伤的新闻报道进行了编码和分析。我们检查了从筛选文章中报告的各种类型的损伤，根据其在精英或业余选手的专业水平下的状态（新鲜、复发和恢复）进行分类。同样，根据球员参加的比赛类型，我们还研究了受伤发生率。采用卡方分析来实现研究目标。网球相关损伤的发生在专业水平上是分散的[ = 16.542； = 0.555]，在精英和业余选手身上都很常见的损伤有膝盖、臀部、肘部和肩部损伤。然而，值得注意的是，精英选手遭受的与损伤相关的问题高达 72.60%，而业余选手的受伤比例为 27.40%。此外，根据比赛类型，损伤的状态也有所不同[ = 3.374； = 0.497]，新鲜和复发的损伤发生率较高，而恢复率较低。研究结果进一步表明，无论比赛类型如何，损伤都会发生[ = 39.393； = 0.321]。然而，大多数损伤发生在国际比赛中（85%）。只有 5.30%的损伤发生在国内/地区比赛中，9.70%的损伤无法确定。从这项调查的结果可以推断出，与业余选手相比，精英选手更容易受伤。此外，最常见的网球相关损伤分别影响身体的下肢、躯干和上肢。大量报告的网球损伤是新鲜的和复发的，只有少数恢复。国际网球比赛与伤病发生高度相关，而不是国内/地区比赛。基于媒体的数据挖掘技术在预测与伤病相关的问题方面具有重要意义，这些问题可以用来为网球运动开发特定的伤病指数，以便及时进行干预。
