Exercícios para prevenção de lesão esportiva em crianças e adolescentes: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

This study is a Literature Review about exercises for sports injuries prevention in children and teenagers. The sports practice has been more common in childhood, which demands new skills development and learning the sports gesture, according to the modality practiced. Due to the high intensity with quick movement changes, speed and direction, with high impact and contact between players, it becomes a propitious environment to injury occurrences. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify efficient trainings for reducing the injury rate during sports practice at this age. The selection of the studies was made using PubMed, Lilacs and Scielo databases, in Portuguese and English, considering randomized clinical trials, published between 2014 and 2024, with participants athletes of age until 18 years old. A total of 9 varied studies were selected for this literature review, demonstrating that the practice of training preventive exercises is effective to reduce sports injuries. In general, these programs were performed in a short duration per session, including stretching, strengthening, balance training and neuromuscular training, planned accordingly to the sports modality. Most part of the studies were aimed at soccer players. This review findings could be used by physiotherapists to plan a clinical approach to prevent sports injury in children and teenagers, since this training is efficient, if there is good adherence among the teams.