بررسي سطح سلامت جسماني دانشجويان ورزشكار شركت كننده در المپياد ورزشي كرمان

A Review, of men olympian student athlets physical health in olympiad ofkeraman

Assessment of the physical health level of atblete students all over the country (participating in Kerman Olympiad), from the viewpoint of sports medicine, is the aim of this study. The population of the study consists of all male students who participated in 1385 athletic Olympiad of Kerman. 350 athletes were selected randomly or by visiting Olympiadʹs medical elinics as samples. For the analysis of the relationships between quantitative variables Pearsonʹs coefficient of correlation and in the qualitative section Spearmanʹs and Kendallʹs have been used. Data analysis of Body Mass Index (BMI) showed that 74.6 % of the population had natural body condition, 8.9 % were overweight, 1.1 % were obese and 15.4 % were underweight or thin. In respeet to waist to hip ratio, results showed that 95.7 % of the population had optimal condition and only 4.3% were exposed to the danger of low to high cardiac insufficiency. The Blood Pressure (BP) of 82.2 % of the population showed to be in natural and normal conditions, 15.7 % had prehypertension problem and 2 % had eneountered hypertension. Based on body type, most and least body injuries were observed to be respectively in lower extremity (26%) and head and face (2%). Regarding tissue, bone injuries (18.3%) and museular injuries (6.3%) had respectively the highest and lowest prevalence rates. In the studied population. headache (migraine) by %5.7 and diabetes by %0.9 had the highest and lowest prevalence rates. According to the results, it seems that most athletes have appropriate and acceptable body composition and physio-clinical conditions which can be due to the positive effects of sport on adjusting the studied indexes in this research.