Comparison of the Injury Prevention Level in Volleyball among Czech Extraleague Teams and Men Teams Abroad
Abstract
The aim of this article is to compare the level of injury prevention in volleyball among Czech extra league teams and selected leading men teams abroad. In the first case there will be a comparison from the players "point of view", it means what sort of prevention and in which level it is accomplished by the players, further on there will be a comparison from the team "point of view", it means what sort of prevention and in which level they are paid by the clubs.
For the research was used a method of expert assortment by means of no standardised questionnaires with closed and semi closed questions. We have found out that clubs abroad reimburse much more and in higher level nearly all means of active injury prevention.
The most applied activity of injury prevention among top volleyball players is strengthening. It was also found out that each of the probands taking part in the research regularly applies at least one element of active injury prevention and some elements of daily prevention are positively correlated with weekly prevention.