Importance and benefits of physiotherapeutic intervention in American football players

Abstract

American football is considered one of the sports with the most impact in athletic injuries and most participants at the institutional level both in public and mostly in private universities, in addition to being a sport in which players are exposed to greater contact and physical demand. In this situation, it is important that sports teams as well as athletes integrate and work together with a physiotherapist to receive better care, treatment and prevention of sports injuries, in order to obtain a better benefit throughout their sporting career, improve their athletic performance, quality of life and reduce the risk of injury incidence.

In Mexico, football has several years generating an increasing media and social impact in different universities; however, there is a lack of documented knowledge about the levels of physical capacity and characteristics of Mexican players who compete at the highest level that could give the guideline to coaches and managers decision-making at the sports or administrative level.

Considering the limited information that exists in the literature on football injuries in higher middle school population in our country, this work was carried out with the aim of determining the proportion, type of injuries and aftermath that have presented football players from the Universidad del Valle de México Campus Cuernavaca.