Research in Action - Netball

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Literature Review
As stated by Coetzee, Langeveld & Holtzhausen, (2014), Netball is completely described
as the most common game played by females in the commonwealth countries. This merely
requires a complete high-level of skill which is inclusive changes in direction and strong
acceleration. In other words, netball can be also described as the demanded sports that places
stress on two points like ligaments and joint of the body. Netball can be stated as giant game
which completely depends on rapid acceleration to “break-free,” which forms an opponent.
There are certain and rapid changes in the given direction which combines with leaps so that it
can have pass for ball or attempting goal. Taking account this point, injuries can come into
picture in various ways (de Villiers & Venter, 2014). A study has been conducted by British
Journal of sport medicine that requires the involvement of 103 elite netball players which are
available from super league netball teams. The collected data from the study highlighted that
ankle was the most frequent injury in the whole seasons. The injuries are recorded within one
super leg session.
According to Pruyn, Watsford & Murphy, (2015), Injury prevention is known to be main
reason because this affects the sporting capabilities of players. In addition, this also affects their
work, which is seen as a result of forced problem at home. All the advantages of taking part in
sports needs to be completely weight up against the given risk that ranges in between moderate
to high injury. In addition, there are many ways found for injuries related to risk that results from
physical activity (Sinclair et al., 2015). Ways of preventing any kind of netball injuries are of
three types that is primary, secondary and tertiary that is inclusive of certain factors like
stretching, technique and conditioning. Adults in the formal were injured due to collision while
the children were injured as a result of falling. Sprains and strains are considered as dominant

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injury for both child and adult injury in case of formal play. In most of the cases, lower limbs of
the main body are injured in adult netball. In formal child netball, lower limbs of the main body
were injured the most. This merely comes into picture as a result of incorrect technique and
improper coordination where the child falls.
As per Ellapen et al., (2015), the injury incidences in the body region and its nature is
completely reported from different VISS data. It completely co-relates to the extent value of
literature review. One of noted factors which is high proportion of fractures and less sprain and
strain in children’s. It stands out to be an important attribute for the emergency department where
the injury is very much severe. Injury prevention is considered to be as one of the important
parameter that affects the players with sporting capabilities. This also affects work,
socioeconomic issues and other related factors. Benefits of taking part in sport needs to be
weight up for the risk which takes place from moderate to severe injury (Romero-Franco et al.,
2014). Laboratory evidences are known to be vital source of details which is related to counter
measurement of netball injury. This particular part of the report is based on equipment design
and its testing. Proper development of standard testing procedure and biomechanical research is
inclusive of body tissue like crash-test dummies (Pruyn, Watsford & Murphy, 2015). This kind
of information provides the exact details of countermeasures like protective and suitable design
netball shoes.
According to Walker, (2016), there is list of programs which is completely based on
research development that needs to be implemented. There is need for complete investigation for
the point that address how to encourage different players so that it can have certain injury
prevention techniques. There is need for improvised data collection for different netball injured
players and related factors that requires development. Data collection needs to be conform as per

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the national guidelines for sport injuries (Attenborough et al., 2015). Data requires to be
maintained on different players at the senior level, which inclusive of participation in the
competition and training. It merely requires the keeping a record of different injuries. All the
required information about netball prevention needs to be disseminated through sales point in
netball magazine. The overall cost of sport injury studied is completely related to relative cost for
sport injuries so that it can attract level of research and raise proper funds.
Coetzee, Langeveld & Holtzhausen, (2014) highlights the point that netball is played on
outdoor by females, but in the last few years, both indoor and mixed netball have increased to a
large extent. There has been growing demand for privately conducted netball competition that
results in variation of rules and methods. There are list of rules in different clubs, association and
organization which are affiliated to Netball. Indoor netball should be completely played under
complete rules and injury counter measurement. Much of the attention is given on different
environmental condition like surface, temperature and surrounding structure. Injury
countermeasures needs to be taken account for both mixed and netball that is played off nets.
Mixed netball is either played on indoor or outdoor that has some standard rules (de Villiers &
Venter, 2014). No data is provided for comparing the evidences related to injury in comparison
to traditional netball. Data –based events are taken from a number of forms.
According to Pruyn, Watsford & Murphy, (2015), injuries are considered to be addition
of different circumstances and earlier condition, which is completely understood in chain of
events, pre-events and lastly, post-events. Injury countermeasure helps in preventing any kind of
risk related to injury. Various researcher have highlighted the countermeasure which is to be
targeted in chain of events that will prevent injury. This kind of injury countermeasures can be
easily equated for both primary and tertiary prevention in events collection related to injury

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(Sinclair et al., 2015). Primary countermeasures are related to the act of event or incident which
ultimately to prevent the event from taking place. The secondary countermeasures will prevent
the injury to take place along with reducing the severe nature of injury. The last level of
countermeasure works collection of events which reduces severity of injury. It will mainly help
in reducing the overall consequence of the injury. There are list of factors which can contribute
to injury risk for different netball players. There is involvement of one factor in each of the
injury. There is a list of countermeasures that focus on primary, secondary and tertiary level of
prevention (Ellapen et al., 2015). It can be easily used for prevent any of the injuries. Injury at
sporting event can be stated as either intrinsic or extrinsic factor. It stands out to be either of the
factor in relation to mental and physical health of athletes. External factors are the one which
affects the performance of athletes. Complete surveillance activity documents are based on
injury documents over the period of time. The second value of counter measurement is accepted
and adopted by different users. Counter measures requires to be accepted which is completely
designed to protect. Awareness program needs to be taken into account the implementation
process (Coetzee, Langeveld & Holtzhausen, 2014). This stands out to be a vital barrier for the
use of injury counter measurement. Another way of countermeasure is complete demolition in
cost/benefit ratio. This policies are needed by regulatory bodies which is involved in rule
making. There are no studies related to economic benefit of netball injury countermeasures.

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References
Attenborough, A. S., Sinclair, P. J., Hiller, C. E., & Smith, R. M. (2015). THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN ANKLE LAXITY AND FRONTAL PLANE ANGLES DURING
NETBALL SPECIFIC TASKS: A PILOT STUDY. In ISBS-Conference Proceedings
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Coetzee, D., Langeveld, E., & Holtzhausen, L. (2014). Training habits, training surface and
injuries among South African netball players. South African Journal for Research in
Sport, Physical Education and Recreation, 36(3), 39-49.
de Villiers, J. E., & Venter, R. E. (2014). Barefoot training improved ankle stability and agility in
netball players. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 9(3), 485-495.
Ellapen, T. J., Schoeman, K. T., Zaca, L. T., Van Heerden, H. J., & Ramiah, P. D. (2015).
Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Injuries among Adolescent Recreational Netballers in
Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research,
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Pruyn, E. C., Watsford, M. L., & Murphy, A. J. (2015). Differences in lower-body stiffness
between levels of netball competition. The Journal of Strength & Conditioning
Research, 29(5), 1197-1202.
Romero-Franco, N., Gallego-Izquierdo, T., Martínez-López, E. J., Hita-Contreras, F., Catalina,
O. P. M., & Martínez-Amat, A. (2014). Postural stability and subsequent sports injuries
during indoor season of athletes. Journal of physical therapy science, 26(5), 683-687.

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Sinclair, J., Chockalingam, N., Naemi, R., & Vincent, H. (2015). The effects of sport-specific
and minimalist footwear on the kinetics and kinematics of three netball-specific
movements. Footwear Science, 7(1), 31-36.
Walker, A. (2016). Modelling and analysis of alternative “tile to tile” attachment mechanism
designs, for a modular plastic tile sports surface using FEA. Procedia engineering, 147,
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