Author(s): Huda Majid Rashid, Bahaa Kaseb Abbas and M Dheyaa M Ali Abdulhussein

Abstract:
In the introduction to the research, the researchers pointed out the importance of sports medicine’s contribution to protecting players from injuries that may become an obstacle to the player’s progress. The problem of the research lies in the lack of research used in the rehabilitation of injuries to the muscles supporting the wrist joint for handball players and the lack of interest for some coaches and players with this injury. The researchers considered conducting an experimental study to rehabilitate the injuries of the muscles supporting the wrist joint for handball players, which includes rehabilitative means, the study aimed to (preparing a program using paraffin wax and exercises to rehabilitate the rupture of the muscles supporting the wrist joint), and the research hypothesis is (there is a positive effect of using paraffin wax and exercises in the rehabilitation of the torn muscle supporting the wrist joint, and the researchers used the experimental approach in the manner of equivalent groups with pre-posttest, while the research community included the advanced handball players in the Kerbala governorate clubs, and the research sample was (5) athletes. Where the group takes a paraffin wax program with qualifying exercises, and after conducting tribal tests to find out the extent of injury for each player, the program followed in order to reach the results through which the research objectives are achieved, the data was presented, analyzed, discussed and processed statistically using the non-parametric test, the most important of which is the Mann Whitney test and through the results, the researchers reached several conclusions, the most important of which (the results showed that there is an effectiveness in the rehabilitation program using paraffin wax to improve the range of motion and reduce the degrees of pain).

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