Injuries and Preventions in Volleyball Training

Liao Zhongfeng

Public Foundation Department, Guangxi Education College, Nanning, Guangxi, 530023, China

Keywords: Volleyball Training, Sports Injury, Prevention Measures.

Abstract: In volleyball training, injuries often occur because of inappropriate training methods or lack of protections.

Therefore, it is necessary to study injuries and preventions in volleyball training. This work analyzed the

characteristics and causes of most injuries in volleyball training, and discussed measures to prevent injuries.

This work can improve the effectiveness of volleyball training and provide a reference for injury

preventions.

1 INTRODUCTION

Movements in volleyball are fast, and most of them

are completed in jumping or crouching state, so

knees often get hurt. In addition, technical actions

such as spike, block or jump-serve need the force of

waist and abdomen, so waist injury often happens.

Besides, muscular strain and injuries of ankle,

shoulder and finger joints are also common

problems in volleyball. Compared with other

confrontational sports, volleyball has a relatively

low probability for injuries. But in the training

process, players are easy to get hurt if they lack

proper protections. When trainers get injuries, their

normal training, study and life will be affected.

2 MAIN FACTORS OF SPORT

INJURIES IN VOLLEYBALL

TRAINING

2.1 Lack of the Awareness of Injury

Preventions

In volleyball training, coaches focus more on skills,

tactics and their connections. Because of low

probability of injuries, coaches usually do not pay

enough attention to injury preventions. In turn,

insufficient attention to injury preventions can lead

students to neglect their safety in the training

process. Actions like jump, squat jump, spike and

block are largely involved in volleyball training,

which will inevitably cause volleyball rolls freely on

the court. In such circumstance, students can easily

hurt their ankles or knee joints if they are landing on

the volleyball. In a worst case scenario, some may

have more serious injuries such as broken legs.

Moreover, many students lack basic knowledge of

volleyball and injury preventions, so injuries can

hardly be avoided in training if there is no effective

safety education.

2.2 Lack of Warm-up Exercise

Some coaches pay insufficient attention to warm-up

exercise in volleyball training. They just ask

students to do a little free-hand exercise. Such

warm-up exercise is too simple to fully stimulate the

central nervous system, motor system and internal

organs of human body. As a result, various parts of

human body cannot be well coordinated, which

makes people’s movement stiff. In this case,

vigorous activities such as spike, defense and block

can easily cause muscle damages to players. Another

problem is that warm-up exercise sometimes is

irrelevant to the training content. For example,

students are preparing for a training aims at

promoting upper limbs flexibility, while their warm-

up exercise is all about leg movements. This makes

their bodies difficult to adapt to the upcoming high-

intensity training.

2.3 Irregular Technical Movements

Volleyball has a very high skill requirement. Skills

in volleyball are complex and diverse, and each skill

can be divided into different forms depending on

their action combinations. After the development

and improvement in the last century, skills in

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Injuries and Preventions in Volleyball Training.

DOI: 10.5220/0006026803820384

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volleyball have well integrated with human

physiological structure and biological dynamics

theory. In other words, sports injuries will not

happen as long as players strictly adhere to skill

specifications. However, many students get hurt in

volleyball training because they fail to obtain the

standard skill movements before taking part in

intense confrontational games.

2.4 Lack of Special Training for

Volleyball

Good physical quality is a prerequisite for applying

volleyball skills. Therefore, in volleyball training,

students need basic physical fitness training and

special training for volleyball. Only in this way can

students effectively and correctly master volleyball

skills. In one training lesson, a student usually needs

to jump dozens or even hundreds times. Jumping has

a very strict requirement for the strengths of

abdomen, waist and leg muscles, especially

student’s explosive effort. Jumping is the basis for a

variety of movements. However, in practice, coaches

rarely conduct jump training because of their

superficial understanding of special training for

volleyball. This can easily lead to injuries of

students after their super-intensive training.

2.5 Overburdened Partial Reps

Training

In volleyball, attacker needs to shoot down the ball

from the net to away court. Therefore, spike and

forehand service are important to gain scores. These

two skill actions both need arms to whip. These

actions are repeatedly trained because they help to

gain scores. Thus, students are prone to shoulder

strain problems, some even get serious injuries such

as frozen shoulders. In addition, spike training

largely involves movements like jump and land. So a

lot of stress is imposed to knees for a long time,

which can easily cause knee injuries.

2.6 Faulty Movements Caused by Poor

Mental Quality

Mental training in China is at the stage of

development. Coaches rarely use it in their training

process because of their limited knowledge about

mental training and inadequate attention. Thus many

athletes get psychological problems in their

volleyball matches. In downwind conditions,

athletes can use various skills in a standard and

appropriate way. However, in the case of upwind,

they become nervous because of their poor

psychological quality, which can result in various

faulty movements. For volleyball athletes, faulty

movements can easily cause sports injuries.

3 INJURY PREVENTIONS IN

VOLLEYBALL TRAINING

3.1 Enhancement of Safety Education

To avoid sports injuries, enhancement of students'

sense of safety should be the most important

teaching content in volleyball training. To develop

students' awareness of prevention, students should

fully understand the causes and hazards of sports

injuries. Moreover, they should be fully aware of the

fact that injury prevention is the premise of

developing their volleyball skills. In volleyball

training, coaches should emphasize the awareness of

prevention in every training session. Only by

properly master these prevention skills can students

avoid sports injuries in volleyball training.

3.2 Proper and Reasonable Warm-up

Exercise

For any intensity sports, proper warm-up exercise

can effectively prevent sports injuries. However,

because of its particularities, warm-up exercise of

volleyball needs to be more reasonable and

scientific. Warm-up exercise should meet the main

characteristics of volleyball, while closely integrated

with specific training programs. Instead of freely

warm-up exercise, special warm-up exercise should

be done before training. In this way, excitement

level of human central nervous system is increased,

which can avoid sports injuries caused by non-

cooperation of human organs and physiological

system after high intensity training. With proper

warm-up exercise, students’ metabolism level and

the elasticity and flexibility of their ligaments and

joints are improved, which can effectively avoid

sports injuries.

3.3 Standardizing Skill Movements in

Volleyball

Volleyball skill is the general name for a variety of

techniques and movements to win the game with the

premise of competition rules. After the development

and improvement in the last century, skills in

volleyball have well integrated with human

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physiological structure and biological dynamics

theory. So sports injuries will not happen as long as

players strictly adhere to skill specifications.

Therefore, in the training process, coaches should

use demonstrations and video recordings to make

sure students have fully grasped the essence of

volleyball skills. This process should be gradual.

Otherwise students may get various sports injuries

because of irregular movements.

3.4 Enhancement of Special Fitness

Training

Volleyball has very high demands for strengths of

lower and upper limbs and their coordination.

Besides, speed, flexibility, sensitivity and jumping

ability are also very important in volleyball game. If

relevant special trainings are insufficient, students

will be easy to get hurt because of fatigue. So special

training is indispensable. Special training should be

based on the integrated development of physical

fitness, and also in accordance with students

characteristics. In practice, general training should

be closely combined with special physical training.

Only in this way can we enhance the overall quality

of students, prevent sports injuries and improve the

level of volleyball training.

3.5 Improvement of Students'

Psychological Quality

Volleyball is a confrontational sport. If athletes have

psychological problems such as poor psychological

quality, interpersonal communication disorder or a

weak will, their sensitivities may decrease because

of impaired concentration. In intensity sports,

athletes are vulnerable to injuries if their reactions

are not sensitive enough. In addition, many students

are only children that usually are reluctant to

communicate with their teammates and lack team

spirit in games due to departmentalism. So in

volleyball training, besides basic technical guidance,

cultivation for psychological quality like

interpersonal ability is also important. To effectively

enhance students' psychological qualities, innovative

training methods are needed to attract students'

interests. Only with a normal state of mind can

students avoid sports injuries.

3.6 Teaching Students with Correct

Self-protection Methods

Before training, coach should carefully check

students’ physical conditions to avoid injuries

caused by physical problems. Meanwhile, coach

need to check training venues to rule out the risk of

sports injuries. In addition, coach also need to guide

students with correct actions to avoid injuries caused

by irregular actions. Coach should specifically

explain to students how to use protective gears and

the body part that each protective gear protects.

Moreover, coach is required to pay attention to small

potential hazards. For instance, the length of nails

cannot be too long, or nails may break when

students play volleyball. With these methods, coach

can effectively enhance students' self-protection

awareness and avoid sports injuries.

4 CONCLUSIONS

Volleyball is good for promoting students' physical

and mental health as well as their integrated physical

fitness. But in the training process, various injuries

may occur if students lack professional training or

safety awareness, bringing many troubles to their

life and study. So coach should prevent sports

injuries by teaching students skill movements. Their

psychological quality and safety awareness also

need to be improved. Moreover, reasonable warm-

up exercise is important. With these measures, the

possibility of injuries in volleyball will be

effectively reduced. Hence the effect of volleyball

training is enhanced, and the overall qualities of

students are promoted.

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