Overview:
Sports injury occurs while involving in any sports activity or repetitive stress on muscles. It affects ligaments, muscles, and tendons of soft tissues or bones. Mostly it happens due to overtraining, lack of stretching, and results as bruises, strains, sprains, and broken bones, etc.
Most common sports injuries are:
Ankle Sprain:
An ankle sprain is one of the most common sports injuries, that effects on ligaments, the bone that helps to keep knee stable. Ligaments on the sides of the ankle can stretch or tear, due to sudden twist or turn to the ankle. Sports like football, basketball, soccer, and volleyball have the highest rate of an ankle sprain. A mild ankle sprain can be treated by ice and elevation and severe ankle sprain can take a few months to recover. The ‘best doctors in Delhi NCR‘ can suggest proper treatment and recovery time after examining the damage.
Torn ACL:
ACL the ‘anterior cruciate ligament‘, holds the knee joints together to provides knee stability. It occurs due to landing on the wrong way, changing direction or stopping quickly. Depending on the age, health status, and activity level of the patient, a doctor will prescribe patients with the best solutions.
Torn MCL:
Torn MCL is a split or damage in the medial collateral ligament, which is a band of tissue inside the bones. It typically transpires when the knee joint gets pushed sideways during a wrong move or while receiving a direct blow to the knee. A torn MCL results in swelling, immense pain, and instability of the joints.
Hamstring strain:
Hamstring strain also called ‘pulled hamstring’ that especially happens in those sports that include sprinting. Back thigh muscles get affected mostly in a Hamstring strain.
Shin Pain :
Shin Pain also often called Shin Splints or Tibial Stress Syndrome especially occurs after physical activity, commonly associated with running. Throbbing, aching, or stabbing pain on the insides of the lower leg, are a result of Shin splints.
Tennis elbow:
Also called as ‘lateral epicondylitis’ is a result of access use of muscles. Tennis and other racquets sports cause this condition. Tennis elbow is an inflammation in the forearm muscles of the outside elbow caused by small tears.
Stress fracture:
Stress fracture transpires when muscles are no longer able to absorb the physical activity’s impact, and bones absorb the pressure. Primarily lower legs and feet are getting effected by a stress fracture.
Prevention:
Good physical and mental health is core to overall health. Certain precautions help to prevent any sports injury, like using correct equipment’s and correct body moves, proper rest and stretching can help prevent sports injuries. Global Orthopedics and Sports Injury Centre – A sports injury center in Delhi NCR suggest people start their activity slowly and to gradually increase strength, flexibility.
