The effect of strength and flexibility exercises using iron devices and tools to prevent ankle joint injuries for advanced handball players

Abstract

The game of handball requires strength and speed, which leads to a loss of control over the performance of some demands due to the situations that the player is exposed to, whether in training or competition, such as special skills for defensive and offensive moves, such as performing deception movements that require strong footing or due to shooting from jumping. It leads to stress and pressure on the ankle joint and the surrounding tissues, ligaments, tendons, and muscles, which leads to an injury or a recurrence of a previous injury to the ankle joint, which is one of the most moving and performing joints in this game.

 Through the experience of the researchers in the field of training and handball, they noticed that there is a lack of focus on preventive exercises for the ankle joint to avoid injury to this joint or its recurrence, which leads to the player not returning to play or his inability to reach the optimal performance, which affects the nature of the required performance .

 The study aimed to identify the effect of strength and flexibility exercises using iron devices and tools to prevent ankle joint injuries for advanced handball players. And to identify the priority effect between the use of iron devices and tools in the prevention of the ankle joint from injuries to the advanced handball players of Al-Qasim Sports Club, which represented the community and the research sample, numbering (18) players. The exercises were applied using iron devices and tools on two experimental groups, which includes exercises (24). A training unit for a period of (12) weeks. In each week, two training units will be applied on (2021/3/2) until (2021/5/29) where the number and numbers of training units were determined. The high intensity interval training method (70-90%) was followed. In each training unit, (4) flexibility exercises and (4) strength exercises were implemented in the special preparation stage. The researchers concluded the following: - The results proved that strength and flexibility exercises using iron devices and tools have a positive effect in developing the strength and flexibility of the ankle joint. The preference of exercises used by iron devices came at the expense of exercises used by tools in developing the strength and flexibility of the ankle joint for advanced handball players.