期刊名称：Italian Journal of Sports rehabilitation and Posturology
电子版ISSN：2385-1988
出版年度：2015
期号：3327
页码：242 – 253
出版社：Società Scientifica Riabilitazione e Posturologia dello Sport
摘要：BACKGROUND: Rehabilitation of traumatic athletic injuries requires modern scientific approaches, the need for comprehensive knowledge of normal and deviance in functional and structural alignments of joints as well as understanding supporting tissues. Complications of injury athletes are attributes of traditional healers’ involvement in injury management. Study on clinical and traditional approaches to injury management with specific attention to footballers in Ashanti region is scanty. This study was then undertaken to assess clinical and traditional sports injuries treatment and rehabilitation processes in four football clubs within Ashanti region. It also described knowledge of injury ideology, causes and prevention among football athletes. METHODS: Descriptive survey research design was adopted. Judgmental sampling technique was adopted to recruit seventy-five footballers (mean age = 21.89 ± 0.75; mean playing years = 8.63 ± 3.36). Structured and validated four-point-likert scale injury rehabilitation instrument with cronbach’s alpha reliability values range 0.82 to 0.90 was employed to collect data. RESULTS: Athletes statistically have significant (p 0.05). There were significant differences between clinical and traditional approaches to injury rehabilitation F (24.976) = 29.088, p
