Abstract
The purpose of study was to investigate the tendency of sports injury histories among Japanese beach volleyball players that is a sand surface sports. A total of 187 players who participated in the All Japan Championship were subjected do by survey form about the history of injuries in each of the beach volleyball and indoor volleyball. At result, beach volleyball players had most lower limb injuries (52.3%) while indoor volleyball, especially were ankle injuries (30.8%). However, they had more upper limb injuries (45.1%) than lower limb injuries (29.4%) while beach volleyball, and they had few ankle injuries (5.9%) which was not much frequency. But, they had many shoulder injuries (33.3%) while beach volleyball, also lower back (19.6%), and knee injuries (11.8%). It was suggested necessity to injury prevention and physical conditioning to these locations for them.
