“Incidencia de la enfermedad de osgood-schlatter en deportistas jóvenes de atletismo de la federación deportiva de Tungurahua”

Abstract

Osgood Schlatter's disease is a health problem of adolescence is considered an overuse injury, ie by repetitive actions the excessive exercise that overload the osteomioarticular apparatus mainly to the knee joint. It is considered as one of the variations in the course of normal adolescent growth, which occurs when the intense activity coincides with a rapid growth and with the distal slippage of the patellar ligament insertion, which provokes an apophysitis of the tibial tuberosity or a Fracture by avulsion of the same. The purpose of this project is to determine the incidence ie the number of new cases focusing on the gender as well as to identify the mechanism of the lesion for the development of Osgood Schlatter disease in Young athletes Athletics belonging to the Sports Federation of Tungurahua, with an analysis of the medical records of the medical doctor of the same institution, the same as the necessary information such as the diagnosis of the disease and the epidemiological data required. The research approach with a level of descriptive research in the same as the participation in approximately 62 athletes who are within a range of age of 11 to 14 years, of which they find a number of 12 athletes with the disease, In Constant training mainly in the practice of throwing and jumping of fences by the repetitive movements of jumping to different heights and turns with weight that realize before throwing the sporting instruments of each discipline.