Introduction: Shoulder injuries are one of the most common injuries in wrestling that in addition to causing pain and functional problems, they cause psychological problems in wrestlers and in high intensity injuries, eventually, they lead to sport abandonment. Shoulder get a large part of his strength through his surrounding muscles and those muscles providing joint stability are very important dynamic lots. On the other hand fatigue is one of the major risk factors of injury. The aim of this study was to compare groups of shoulder girdle muscle fatigue during a simulated wrestling match.
Methods: Fourteen amateur wrestlers (age 20/7±3/2, weight 70/3±12/9, height 174/2±5/8) were selected and after checking their conditions, were tested. After a standard warming up, muscle strength of ten shoulder motions of two wrestler′s hand was measured by a portable Isokinetic dynamo-meter. After two or tree-minute high-intensity freestyle wrestling with 30 seconds rest between two times, the measurements were repeated and force loss percentage of every movement was calculated. Dependent T-test was used to determine the difference between the pre-and post tests.
Results: The results indicate a significant reduce in muscle strength of all defined motions except non dominant external rotation after simulated wrestling match (p <0/05). The most fatigue occurred in scapula stabilizing muscles (re-tractor, protractor and elevator muscles).
Conclusion: The obtained results can be used to design a fitness program in order to prevent shoulder joint injures and also to increase muscle performance and to improve the wrestling quality. Wrestling coaches and Wrestlers also suggests that your fitness endurance training programs use Paddles.