ABSTRACT

　There are not enough reports about elbow joint injury of disabled sports. In preset study, we investigated about the observations of elbow joint in wheelchair marathon athlete for the prevention of elbow joint injury. Thirty five wheelchair marathon athletes, who participated in Oita international wheelchair marathon race, were recruited for present research. Elbow pain on motion, tenderness, Tinel's sign, ulnar nerve palsy and range of motion on elbow were investigated. Five athletes had elbow pain on motion, and 15 athletes had tenderness. The tenderness parts of 14 athlete were left lateral epicondyle of humerus. Seven athletes had left Tinel's sign and 6 athletes had right Tinel's sign. Two athletes had left ulnar nerve palsy. These abnormal findings on left side elbow were more than right side. There were no limit of range of motion on elbow. From present results, about half of wheelchair marathon athletes had some abnormal findings on elbow, and the abnormal findings had laterality (left side > right side). Moreover, the most high frequency parts of tenderness was lateral epicondyle of humerus. We assumed that these results might be the one of important new findings for the prevention of elbow joint injury.

DESCENTE SPORTS SCIENCE Vol.37/THE DESCENTE AND ISHIMOTO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR THE PROMOTION SPORTS SCIENCE