Epidemiology of Volleyball Injuries in Iran and Prevention Strategies: A Review Study

With the increasing popularity and number of participants in volleyball, the extent of the injury is increasing. Due to the lack of prospects for research in the field of volleyball injuries in Iran and ways to prevent them, the purpose of this review study was to clarify the future research needs in the field of volleyball injuries in Iran.

To identify the research, databases such as SID, Magiran, Noormags, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, and PubMed using the keywords “volleyball injury”, “epidemiology”, “risk factors”, “mechanism”, “prevention protocol” were used. It was articles published until 20 February 2021.

Finally, according to the research strategy, 21 articles remained eligible for the study. Among these 17 articles were mainly epidemiologic and relevant to risk factors and only 4 articles related to injury prevention strategy.

Most studies in the field of volleyball injuries in Iran were epidemiologic and relevant to risk factors. As a result, the need for more comprehensive epidemiological studies and studies conducted to investigate the mechanism of injury and especially research that provides volleyball injury prevention programs along with their evaluation felt.