Incidencia de esguince de tobillo en corredores de trarunning del club Tungurahua adventure team

Abstract

The present research focuses on determining the incidence of ankle sprain is trail running runners of the Tungurahua Adventure Team club, considering that this is a relatively new sport and that it is having a great growth in recent years and that it is a sport that has a great variety of competition modalities as well as many types of terrain and surfaces on which this practice takes place. Within the sample population that was taken for this study there are a number of 60 athletes of which 34 of them meet the eligibility model there, applying a calculation estimate formula a final sample of 23 respondents remained. Once the surveys that were carried out during three weeks were carried out, it is visualized that the sprain is very present in the practice of trail running since 14 people 9 of them presented an ankle sprain, of this number 14 people suffered it once, 5 people suffered it more than once and only four did not suffer it. It should be noted that the 1st degree sprain is the one that occurs most 12 times within the population, 5 times the second degree sprain and 2 times the grade 3 sprain.