1.4 Research Gap What we know about injury rates among martial arts participants. It arises primarily from studies of tournament or competition injuries. Some reports from tournaments and competitions were at national level. Some of them in practise or recreation level. However there is more chances of injuries during martial arts competition (M N Zetaruk M. A., 2005). The investigation of the injuries in taekwondo competitions. Injuries at a Canadian national taekwondo championships (Mohsen Kazemi W. P., 2004) has been studied in this research the injury rate in male and female adults Canadian taekwondo athletes relative to total number of injuries, type and body part injured. In 2006 and 2007 Vahid Ziaee, Seyed-Hessam Rahmani, Mohsen …show more content…
Epidemiology of injuries in elite taekwondo athletes from two Olympic periods cross-sectional retrospective study (Albert Altarriba-Bartes F. D., 2013) founded the anatomical sites with most injury incidence are the knee, foot, ankle, thigh and lower leg and the most prevalent injuries are contusions and joint and cartilage injuries. In additional six authors including Monoem Haddad and Karim Chamari, Injuries in Taekwondo 2015, Head Injuries in Junior Taekwondo Competitions by Catalin Paunescu, Gabriel Piţigoi, Mihaela Paunesc 2013, In 2015 Lystad RP, Graham PL and Poulos RG have written about Epidemiology of training injuries in amateur taekwondo athletes (R. P. Lystad, 2015). And from acute injuries in Taekwondo 2009 researchers founded a relation between Taekwondo style, skill level, weight-class and warm-up routine and the occurrence of injuries (K. Schlüter-Brust, 2009). There are much of research in several countries about taekwondo injuries. But there is no any research in Sri Lanka related to taekwondo and also about taekwondo injuries. There is Hugh gap in Sri Lankan taekwondo research field. This research will fill this gap and it will be reference for the persons who prefer in this