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 Volume 9, Issue 11 (November 2022), Pages: 153-159

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 Original Research Paper

 Incidence of cruciate ligament injuries in Saudi professional soccer league in the past 20 years

 Author(s): Khaleel I. Alyahya *

 Affiliation(s):

 Clinical Anatomy Lab, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3211-7759

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.11.019

 Abstract:

This study aims to report the incidences and causes of cruciate ligament (CL) injuries in the Saudi professional soccer league in the past 20 years. Additionally, this study is also aimed to measure the association of the most common causes of injuries with age and the rate of injury recurrence in the Saudi professional soccer league. This descriptive epidemiology study combines published information online, TV news, and newspapers, about players and teams in Saudi Professional Soccer League from the year 2000 to 2020. Data were analyzed with graphs and tables of CL injury incidence by club type, frequency of matches, the position of players, age, and causes of injury. In addition, we also assess the recurrence of injury among the players. Our results revealed that CL injury is common among players in the Saudi professional soccer league. Contact with other players or opponents is the leading cause of this injury (61.9%). In terms of players’ position and CL injury, the center midfielder is more susceptible (34.9%) than players in other positions. Age-wise, young players between 20-25yr (42.9%) and 25–30 years (39.7%) of Soccer age sustain more injuries than older players (14.3%). The incidence of injury among Saudi players during this time was higher than that recorded for the non-Saudi professional player. In our study, we found that CL injury is established among players in the Saudi professional soccer league most of which was due to contact with another player. Our findings can serve as a valuable reference to understand how the frequency of participation in the match, and pressure from media and fans could affect players’ performance and contribute to the cause of injury.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Knee, Cruciate ligament, Soccer, League

 Article History: Received 19 April 2022, Received in revised form 25 July 2022, Accepted 7 August 2022

 Acknowledgment 

I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Abdulmajeed Azzam for his great effort in searching the media, magazines, and newspapers to collect the precious data. Also, my deep thanks to Mr. Saleh Alsaleh, the expert in sports marketing, for his support in spreading our messages to a wide range of his Twitter followers to get valuable feedback. My sincere appreciation is extended also to Nasser Alsunbul, Yazeed Almutawa, Mazen Elthiabi, and Abdulrahman Alhammadi for their wonderful contributions to searching and collecting the data.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Alyahya KI (2022). Incidence of cruciate ligament injuries in Saudi professional soccer league in the past 20 years. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(11): 153-159

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