INTRODUCTION: Swimming is a sport that has been on the high in the last years and requires high levels of training and performance, which can cause overuse on muscular skeletal system, causing injuries to swimmers. Objective: To verify the pain prevalence and the body areas with pain, correlating with main style and practice time in swimming athletes from SERC Club in São Caetano do Sul. METHOD: A survey with 19 questions was applied to 71 athletes (30 female and 41 male) in child I (10-12 years old), child II (12-14 years old), juvenile (14-16 years old), junior (16-18 years old) and senior (From 18 years old) categories. The variables were analyzed by Two-Proportional Equality Test and Mann-Whitney Test. RESULTS: Pain prevalence was of 74.6% (n = 53; p < 0.001),namely: 39.6% (n = 21) in shoulder and 22.6% (n = 12; p = 0.059) in thighs and the back stroke swim was the only style that had no correlation with pain (p = 1.000) or time of practice (p = 0.075). CONCLUSION: In the studied subjects, there was high pain prevalence, with the shoulder and thigh being the most affected areas, not presenting correlation with the back stroke style neither in sports time of practice.
swimming; athletes; pain; physical therapy
