Sports Injury
What is Sports injuries?
The term “sports injury” refers to the kinds of injuries that most commonly occur during sports or exercise, but they are not limited to athletes.
Sports injuries are broadly categorized into two kinds:
- Acute injuries, which happen suddenly.
- Chronic injuries, which are usually related to overuse and develop gradually over time.
Common Sports Injuries
Some of the common injuries experienced by athletes and people who have jobs or hobbies that involve doing a repetitive motion include:
- Shoulder Injuries
- Rotator cuff injury
- Impingement
- Elbow Injuries
- Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis)
- Golfer’s elbow (medial epicondylitis)
- Ulnar collateral ligament injury
- Knee Injuries
- Runner’s knee
- Fracture
- Dislocation
- Torn ligament
- Meniscal tear
- Tendon tear
- Leg Injuries
- Groin pull
- Hamstring strain
- Shin splints
- Ankle Injuries
- Ankle sprain
- Achilles tendinitis
- Shoulder Injuries
The risk factors for sports injuries include:
- Not using the correct exercise techniques.
- Overtraining, either by training too often, too frequently, or for too long.
- Changing the intensity of physical activity too quickly.
- Playing the same sport year-round.
- Running or jumping on hard surfaces.
- Wearing shoes that do not have enough support.
- Not wearing the proper equipment.
- Having had a prior injury.
- Having certain anatomical features specific to each joint or poor flexibility.
- Taking certain medications, such as fluoroquinolones, a class of antibiotics linked to tendinitis and tendon rupture.
Treatment for a sports injuries
Treatment for a sports injury depends on whether it is an acute injury, or a chronic injury.
Minor ones can usually be treated at home by resting, icing, compressing, and elevating (R-I-C-E) the injured part of the body. This type of injury treatment is ideal for soft tissue injuries such as muscle strains and sprains.
For more serious injuries, you will need to see a health care provider, and you may need to be set up for a course of physical therapy for rehabilitation and/or fitted for a cast, splint, or brace. In some cases, you may need surgery.
A rehabilitation program that includes exercise and other types of therapy is usually recommended before resuming the sport or activity that caused the injury.
What treatment will you do for sports injuries?
- Manual therapy techniques to reduce pain, swelling, and muscle tension.
- Targeted exercises to strengthen muscles, improve flexibility, and restore range of motion.
- Sport-specific rehabilitation to help you return to your activity with confidence.
- Injury prevention strategies and education to minimise the risk of future injuries.
- Modalities like heat, ice, or ultrasound to improve the healing process
- Kinesiology taping
Our goal is not only to treat the immediate injury but also to address any underlying issues and provide guidance to prevent recurrent injuries, enabling you to perform at your best.
Our Physiotherapist will work with you to reduce the pain and swelling,will make a plan aimed at rebuilding strength and range of motion of the injured part of the body,and easing residual pain.