PAIN PREVALENCE IN KAZAKHSTANI TRIATHLETES
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2024
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Nazarbayev University School of Medicine
Abstract
Pain is a widespread phenomena in the sports field, commencing from the athletic activities such as
yoga, jogging or archery to professional, elite type of sports. The presence of pain is explained by
multiple reasons, overloading, training regime, injuries and so on. In terms of the mechanism of
pain pathophysiology, it is generally induced by the traumatization of the musculoskeletal system,
release of pain mediators and individual characteristics of the body. The intensity as well as
duration of the ache varies depending on the causes, anatomical and physiological features of the
body, as well as timely addressing for medical assistance.
Triathlon is a multidisciplinary endurance sport, consisting of 3 consecutive parts: swimming,
cycling and running, provides significant challenges to athletes, including the coping with pain
during training and/or competition. This master’s thesis explores the prevalence of pain syndrome
by triathletes, with the objective to find out the frequency of pain, its character and duration as well
as the location of mostly affected body parts and abnormal sensations in the area chosen.
According to the existing literature, the physiological, psychological and biomechanical aspects
contributing to torment in triathletes around the world were reviewed. It explores that the pain is
pretty common in this type of sport, however the nature of it differs across the training phases,
athletes’ experience levels and the reasons. Furthermore, this study investigated the influence of
pain on training compliance, competition outcomes and athletes’ quality of life.
The methodological approach involves quantitative technique, utilized to find out the frequency of
pain, its character and duration as well as the location of mostly affected body parts and abnormal
sensations in the area chosen through the combination of two international validated surveys.
The findings from this research give a light on the condition of triathletes in a county-scale,
highlighting their experience of pain, which was found to be highly prevalent. Regarding the nature
of the pain, it was found that it is usually persistent or absent with medium-intensity pain attacks in
knees and back. In addition, the sensory abnormalities are not common as the participant mainly
reported no presence of any tingling, burning or radiation of the pain to other body parts.
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Type of access: Gated, triathlon, pain prevalence, endurance sports, triathlon injuries
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Syrymbet, A. (2024). Pain prevalence in Kazakhstani triathletes. Nazarbayev University School of Medicine