2001 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 5-15
In the present study, we investigated various conditions of knee injuries through questionnaires using a total of 318 subjects, including university judo club members and coaches and also police judoists, to clarify the actual state of injuries of the knee joint/ligament in judoists as well as posttraumatic influences, and we also evaluated the effects of rehabilitation, which was performed for the recovery from injury, on knee injuries. The results obtained are as follows:
1) There were 154 knee injuries (23.2%) among all of 663 injuries occurring in the 318 subjects (including 7 women) examined in the present survey. The knee ligaments were injured in 79.2% of the knee injuries. Of cases diagnosed by Orthopedists,67.2% were classified as severity degree II or higher.
2) Although significant effects were observed in the rehabilitated cases, they were only 13.7% of the entire cases. The remaining cases,77.1%, had training for the range of motion, muscular strength, etc. to some extent, but tended to return to professional competitions on the way of recovery, although they had not taken sufficient rest, and their conditions were not sufficiently managed due to insufficient training. Because of such unsatisfactory circumstances, posttraumatic symptoms lasted in many cases as 55.8%.
3) Although only 12 subjects followed our rehabilitation program in the present study, their muscular strength and function were determined to be satisfactorily restored after muscle-strengthening training when evaluated based on the weight-bearing index. From these results, it was inferred that the achievement of rehabilitation strictly following the contents of the rehabilitation program prepared in consideration of both physical and mental aspects, including accurate diagnosis and careful execution of the I·C·E·S·R treatment, is an effective way to recover from injuries of the knee joint/ligament.
