Playing sport has great advantages and benefits for the persons health, but it also brings with it its opposite, and that is the existence of a risk od injury. Sports today are increasingly demanding in the motor, but it also in the psychological sense. This is especially pronounced in team sports where contacts are frequen and rough. Handball is a team polystructural sports activity which consists of numerous movements in horizontal and vertical directions as well as numerous pyhisical contacts that may lead to injuries. Most frequent injuries of lower extremities in handball are as follows ankle injuries and anterior cruciate ligament injuries. The process of rehabilitation is very complex and it consists of acute and functional phase, which is very cruical and costumized for every individual. After the functional phase of rehabilitation has been succesfully completed, the criteria for return to handball are met. In most research cases, five criteria are listed as permanent: functional abilities tests, strength tests, phychological tests, time factor, and risk factors. Various test are used for this purpose, for example: balance tests, agility, aerobic endurance, explosive strength, thigh muscle strength and psychological tests. Every test aspect gives the multidiscpilined team an image, after which a decision about the return of the handball player to the sport is made. It happens over three stages. The first one is a return to participating in sports, which is followed by the stage of competing in sports at reduced level of perfomance. The sportsman is able to perform as good as prior the injury had been occured only in third and final phase of recovery. There were not enough specific tests provided by researched sources. As a consequence, tests do not ensure higher level of confidence for handball player and his team, when it comes to making the final decision on getting bak to play handball.