Table 3.

Intrinsic factors related to the risk of injury in athletes reported by the participants.

Equipment	Training	Sport characteristics	Others
Inadequate surface (11)	Excessive training (13)	Movements inherent to the sport (11)***	Climate changes (3)
Wrong shoes (6)	Lack of strength (8)*	Repetitive movements (7)	Temperature (2)
Bad condition of the equipment used during training (5)	Lack of rest (6)		Bad referee conduct (in a match)
Weight of the equipment	Lack of physical conditioning (5)
	Incorrect physical preparation (4)
	Instability (proprioception) (4)
	Lack of flexibility (2)
	Fatigue (2)**
	Increase in training load too fast
	Inexperience of the athlete
	Large number of competitions in the year

All these factors are described in the table as they were collected from participants

^*Included the phrase "muscle imbalance";

^**The fatigue component was not identified

^***Included the phrases changes of direction, deceleration, jump, physical contact and high range of movements.