Monthly Archives: January 2019
Ankle injury
Ankle injury in volleyball is the most common – almost half of the total number of injuries. Most often, such an injury occurs when landing after a jump, and on the foot of another player, often on the opponent’s foot, although such injury is much less common in beach volleyball. The reason for this, many experts call a smaller number of players on the court and sand instead of hard surface. Ankle injury in volleyball is most likely a sprain, and this is an acute injury.
Ankle sprains
The largest number of ankle sprains is a sprain of the lateral ligaments, and two ligaments are injured at once – the anterior talon-fibular and calcaneal fibular. Continue reading
Osgood-Schlatter disease
In young athletes with their underdeveloped bone system, the bones are more supple, the cartilage is softer, and the ligaments, on the contrary, are more powerful. Therefore, if some burden in an adult athlete leads to a rupture of the tendon or ligament, then in a junior a similar burden can cause a fracture of the apophysis or pineal gland. If the treatment is not carried out correctly, there will be a violation of bone development – Osgood-Schlatter disease. This disease was first described at the very beginning of the 20th century. It occurs most often in boys aged 11 to 15 years. The reason is the injury (rupture) of the patella ligament in the area where the ligament is attached to the tuberosity of the tibia. Symptoms of the disease are pain and some localized swelling of the soft tissue. Continue reading
Brief rules of volleyball (How to play volleyball?)
volleyball how to play Volleyball is one of the most interesting team games invented by man. Not for nothing having gone to the beach you can see many circles consisting of those who want to hit the ball, not letting it fall. Aside, you can see 2-3 stretched nets and a bunch of people around them. These are those who have already learned to play well and decided to measure strength with others, But in order to play on the court with other teams you need to know the rules of volleyball.
There are official rules for volleyball 2016. This is a fairly large document, where a lot of information is completely unnecessary for an ordinary amateur. This article will explain the essence of the game and brief rules. Continue reading
