BIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS AND SPORTS PERFORMANCE – IN RUGBY AND SOCCER

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BIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS AND SPORTS PERFORMANCE – IN RUGBY AND SOCCER

Popescu Alin Nicolae ¹, Timnea Olivia ², Bara Laura Margareta¹, Vartosu Venera ^1
1 Romanian Rugby Union,
² UEB, FEFS, Romania

The study aims to emphasize the importance of the state of health in gaining sports performance considering the teams’ results observed in the period of time: June 2006 – may 2008.
It was observed the state of health evolution in relation with the performance of the athletes (58 – rugby players – 2 teams, 44 – soccer players – 2 teams).
There were considered both the medical – sportive circuits (4 times in 2 years) and the frequency of being present at a various specialty services of the National Sports Medicine Institute for pathology consultation, and also medical consultations in other clinics (in Bucharest and other cities) especially in services of orthopedics – traumatology. We mention that out of the 102 athletes considered – 6 of them (around. 6%) suffered surgical interventions during the previous mentioned period of time ( 4 – knee, 1 – shoulder, 1 – ankle). We try to establish correlations obtained for the 4 teams and the information related to the state of health of the components of these teams.   
KEY WORDS: rugby, soccer, biological diagnosis, sports performance.