Injury Prevention in Young Kickboxing Athletes

The article considers the issue of injury prevention in young athletes involved in kickboxing. Team sports and combat sports are considered as the most injury-prone disciplines. Most of them involve direct physical contact between opponents or partners. Thus, there is a high possibility of injuries among the athletes involved in these sports, and kickboxing in particular. The issue of injury prevention in young kickboxers is of particular importance and requires in-depth study. To conduct the experiment and obtain quantitative data, we used the following research methods: analysis and generalization of special scientific and methodological literature, pedagogical observation, pedagogical experiment, medical history of young kickboxers, questionnaires and methods of mathematical statistics. As a result of the conducted research, the main causes of injuries in young kickboxers were identified, types of injuries, their classification and complexity were established. Guided by the data obtained, a program of preventive measures was developed and implemented in the training process, the basic basis of which was a set of physical exercises aimed at strengthening the most trauma-prone parts of the athletes' musculoskeletal system, as a factor in preventing the occurrence of the main types of injuries. After the implementation of a program of preventive measures, which included sets of physical exercises and methods of their application in the training process, practical recommendations for organizing the training process and competitive activities, a trend towards a reduction in all types of injuries was noted, which confirms the effectiveness of the implementation of a comprehensive algorithm of injury prevention measures.