| Objeetivel:Understanding the athletes' injury episodes, such as specific injury sites (i.e., parts of the body) and their medical care seeking behaviors, including treatment therapies and medical cares (i.e., western medicine versus Traditional Chinese Medicine, TCM) are important for the participants to take or develop necessary measures.Method:This study aims to investigate the episodes of injuries and their medical care seeking behaviors for martial art athletes.Result:Injury is almost inevitable in fierce sports like martial art. The number of injury episodes and the frequency of specific injury sites, injury categories, treatment therapies, and medical cares were analyzed. The male has higher injury rates than the female—the male takes 542 of the total injury episodes (740) and the female takes only 30.8%. For males, thigh (10.13%) is the most regular injury site, followed by ankle joint (9.58%); while for females, waist is the most frequent injury site, followed by wrist joint. Of the total medical care treatments, TCM takes 58.223% and western medicine takes only 21.23%. With an exception of fracture, most Taiwanese adolescent martial art athletes, once got injured of various types, would seek for TCM medical care rather than western medicine.Conclusion:The majority of injured athletes would consistently seek for TCM as their first-aid and long-term recovery therapies. Although western medicine has been the mainstream of athletes' injury treatments, an equal emphasis on TCM alternatives, as applied to common taekwondo injuries, is recommended in this study.
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