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The practice of recreational sports has increased in recent years in proportion to the perception of well-being and health applied to the desired quality of life model in different countries across the continents, but injuries and their mechanisms are different in different World places. The most common generally speaking, injury mechanism regardless of the country, except for overtraining, (more common in elite athletes) in the general population this phenomenon happens due to lack of preparation or little physical conditioning and the poor performance of the sport movements conditioned by poor technique in addition to morpho-structural and biomechanical alterations. The purpose of this study is to show how recreational sport mechanisms of injuries are different depending on a World region and how different the injury could be connected with specific sports activities.
Sports, either recreational or professional, should be performed with an understanding of cultural and lifestyle differences, to better evaluate an injury predisposition and general willingness to activity, plus to be able to establish an implement a proper prevention programs for the injuries.
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Lukaszenko, A., Abat, F., Moraes, J.C. (2020). Sports in Daily Life. In: Krutsch, W., Mayr, H.O., Musahl, V., Della Villa, F., Tscholl, P.M., Jones, H. (eds) Injury and Health Risk Management in Sports. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60752-7_8
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