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The purpose of this study was to examine the incidence of volleyball injuries, and to describe the effect of injury incidence, injury type and severity of injury by athletic trainer’s supports. 12 female players from a Japanese volleyball team of the third division in university of Tokai region participated in the study during three seasons from 1 July 2010 to 31 December 2011. Volleyball exposure during training and matches was recorded for each individual player by the athletic trainer on injury reports.
As a result, we found 76 injuries during 10992 player hours. The total injury incidence was 6.91±6.2 per 1000 hour of play (PH). The incidence of acute injury was 3.28±3.6/1000PH, overuse injury was 3.64±3.3/1000ph. The injury pattern (acute or overuse) differed from each position (p<0.05). The setter had high incidence of acute injury, and the receiver had high incidence of overuse injury. The injury incidence of upper extremities were 0.56±0.6/1000PH, lower extremities were 0.52±0.3/1000PH, trunk/back were 0.33±0.19/1000PH; the hand and finger had the highest injury incidence（1.55/1000PH）. The injury pattern did not change through seasonⅠ〜Ⅲ. The severity of gradeⅠdiffered among gradeⅡand gradeⅢ in
