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Flexibility is an important component of physical fitness. Loss of flexibility may cause unexpected movements and decoordination which may lead to an increase in incidence of sports injury and performance deffects. In this study we evaluated the relationship between sports injury incidence and flexibility on 170 soccer players of 15 team which are the members of second amateur leageu in ankara. A questionnaire form which consisted of 18 questions was applicated to obtain personal information and sports injury history of the subjects. We also measured the flexibility of the subjects 6 different specific tests for various muscle groups (hamstrings, flexors of the hip, lumbal extensors, plantar flexors, tensor fascia lata and quadriceps femoris). Results are evaluated by descriptive statistics and chi-square statistical processes. For all statistical analyses SPSS software package was used. While 32 % of participants did not report any injury, majority of participants (62 %) reported one or more sports injury. The first tree most frequently reported injury type as follows; 79 exposed skin injuries or open wounds (35.58 %), 55 muscle strain or rip (24.27 %), 40 sprain (18.01 %). From the point of view of the distribution of injuries by site of injury , 48 ( 21.62 %) injury occured in upper extremity (hand, wrist, elbow shoulder) and 132 injury (59.44 %) occured in lower extremity(foot, ankle, calf, knee, thigh) was observed Muscle tightness was established nearly in all muscle group. While the most tight muscle group was hip fleksors (45.88 %), state of the other muscle groups as follows; 70 thightness in Hamstring group (% 41,17), 65 thightness in plantar fleksors (% 38,23), 20 thightness in lumbal ekstansors ( %11,76), 65 thightness in Quadriseps femoris (% 38,23), 13 thightness in Tensor fascia lata (7,64). We conclude that there is no significant correlation between soccer injuries and muscle flexibility in soccer game.

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