Prevalence of respiratory tract obstruction in professional foreign wrestlers

Since wrestling is accompanied with maximal effort and entails a great deal of pulmonary respiration during training and competition, bronchoconstriction causes functionallyphysical capacity in wrestlers. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of respiratory tract obstruction in professional Greco wrestlers. For this reason, 20 Wrestlers (age 49/3 ± 62/22 years, height 85/8 ± 02/176 cm, weight 45/14 ± 10/79 kg, VO2max 40/4 ± 77/47 ml / kg / min) who engaged in professional wrestling for at least seven years were selectively and purposefully screened. Strand treadmill test was used as a test of maximal activity. Postexercise spirometry test was performed in 1, 5, 15, 30 time points after stopping the exercise test. The results showed that FEV1 in 1, 5, 15 and 30 minutes decreased respectively 3/2, 6/5, 2/8 and 4/6 percents and FEF25-75 decreased 1/4, 1/8, 5/11 and 2/9 percents. A decrease of 7/3, 8/7, 7/9 and 7/6 percentswas also observed in PEF. Our findings suggest that the greatest amount of decrease occurred at 5 and 15 minutes after exercise.The prevalence of exercise-induced bronchospasm in the study population was 15%, while the prevalence of EIB in the athlete population varies from 11% to 55%. Relativebronchospasm in this study may be due to the intensity and duration of exercise as well as environmental factors among wrestlers.