Lesiones y personalidad en el deporte de competición

Injuries are usual events in sports, both when they occur in recreational sports and in competition. This study has aimed to analyze the occurrence of injuries throughout one season in 48 athletes practicing 3 different competitive sports: Olympic Wrestling, Canoeing and Taekwondo. All of the injuries recorded were classified according to their anatomical location, diagnosis and severity while treating the athlete's physical discomfort. Another part of the research has aimed to link the injuries with the athlete's personality characteristics using the questionnaire EPQ of Eysenck and Eysenck. The results show a higher proportion of injuries in men than in women, the most common ones being minor injuries in lower limbs. Taekwondo is the sport that has the greater number of injuries, and shoulder tendon injury occurs the most, especially in canoeing. Regarding physical discomfort, overloads in the neck, lumbar and thigh stand out. A positive correlation is also obtained between the number of injuries and scores on the personality dimension of personality neuroticism. Finally, we discuss these aspects.