A systematic review on the most common injuries in handball

A systematic review on the most common injuries in handball

Breha Alexandru Mihai

Mihăilă Ion

Iconaru Ioana

Popescu Corina

Ciucurel Constantin

This paper aimed to find how many relevant papers were published from 2018 to present regarding handball injuries and prevention of handball injuries, in two databases, PUBMED and Library Genesis (libgen.li.). For this matter there were used three equations to find results in the two databases selected, and for each of them there were quantified the number of scientific papers that were relevant to this study.

Also, in this paper we presented inclusion/exclusion criteria, the results we found, and also, the analysis of each paper’s quality, for the papers that were a match to the inclusion criteria.

For each paper we evaluated the quality of content using 5 relevant questions that help us understand the missing aspects that need further study, being applied individually for the two databases.

The results we found revealed a very poor literature regarding injuries in handball and also prevention of injury in handball.

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