Massage therapies for the prophylaxis of the side epicondylitis injury of the elbow linked to the sports practice of Paralympic table tennis athletes of the Provincial Mayabeque academy

Abstract

This work deals with the prophylaxis of the side epicondylitis lesion of the elbow, a topic of great importance in Paralyctable table tennis of the Provincial Mayabeque academy. Our goal is to select massage therapies for the prophylaxis of the side epicondylititis lesion of the elbow linked to the sports practice of table tennis athletes, ACLIFIM and ANSOC. This research allows us to work the prophylaxis of the injury from massage therapies which will have as fundamental elements the therapeutic massage and points to be treated with digitopuntura. For the elaboration of this work we rely on the review of the literature related to the subject, the observation of the training process and participation in the national arbitration course. Table tennis classification with the aim of obtaining information about the occurrence of such injury and actions that are performed during the training for the prophylaxis of the same, the individual survey of trainers and Arbitrators classifiers in order to know the most common injury during the training process and the pathways for prophylaxis of it and the statistical-mathematical method that allowed us to perform the percentage calculation of the behavior of all the incidents that occurred during the observation and the survey. With this work we hope to achieve better physical and psychic harmony on the part of practitioners so therapeutic massage therapies and digitopuntura will largely help to acquire a good physical conditioning and in this way decrease gradually cases of side-elbow epicondylitis injury in the Mesa Tennis team of the ACLIFIM and ANSOC of the Mayabeque Provincial