When you step out for
any sports activity, you risk getting any of these sports related injuries. However,
that doesn’t stop most of us from putting our bodies through the strenuous
motions of play considering the fame and money involved.
Here are some of the
sports related injuries:
1. Runner’s Knee
Orthopedic surgeons
make almost 50-percent of their business from shoddy knees. And runner’s knee,
which results after a tear or long term wear damages and deteriorates the
tendon right below the kneecap is the most common knee injury affecting
runners, cyclists, tennis players, soccer, basketball, and volleyball players.
2. Head trauma
Concussion result from
serious head trauma, so severe that the brain actually rattles around in the
skull, firing off brain cells and simulating a seizure. A concussion most
often occurs from a blow to the head during contact sports (i.e., football or
hockey), causing disorientation, vision problems, headaches, dizziness, memory
loss, and nausea. Even though an athlete can handle one or 2 concussions;
repeated concussions will cause permanent brain damage.
3. Plantar Fasciitis
Plantar fasciitis
occurs when the plantar fascia, the connective tissue on the sole of the foot
and bottom of the heel, becomes painfully inflamed. You’ll typically know you
have it from the shooting pains that strike the bottom of your foot as soon as
you take your first run or steps after a period of inactivity.
4. Torn Rotator Cuff
A tear in your rotator
cuff affects the tendons of one or multiple rotator cuff muscles. There are 4
rotator cuff muscles in all that cause or damage, achy pain, numbness,
tingling, and shooting pains in the area of the shoulder—most typically when
the arm is lifted over the head.
5. Hamstring Injuries
Hamstring injuries
typically affects athletes who run or perform high impact moves that are
absorbed by the hamstring muscles, the long cord-like muscle that runs down the
back of the leg. A normally tight, rigid muscle, the hamstrings are prone to
strains, pulls, tears, and serious muscle ruptures.
6. Strained Groin
A strained groin
results when the fan-like muscles of the adductors (located in the upper thigh)
are pulled too far, leaving the area swollen and bruised. Since the
adductor muscles draw the legs together, you risk a groin strain in sports
where you make sudden stops and starts while running with opposite directional
changes—like basketball, soccer, hockey, and tennis.
7. Achilles Tendinitis
Achilles tendonitis
occurs when the tendon at the back of the ankle suffers repetitive stress. It’s
another common injury for running and jumping sports, leaving the tendon so
painfully inflamed that running and supporting yourself on the affected leg is
almost impossible.
8. Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
ACL (or Anterior
Cruciate Ligament) injuries are another injury that results from sports with
sudden running stops and starts and quick or twisting directional changes. Your
ACL is one of 4 ligaments set deep within the knee, and a partial or complete
tear can occur when the feet aren’t set properly to absorb the shock of an
impactful landing.
9. Tennis or Golf Elbow
Elbow injuries are
particularly common with sports that overuse the area (i.e., tennis or golf,
hence the name). They occur with the gradual degeneration of the epicondyle
tendon of the elbow—from moves like repeated golf swings or tennis backhand
strokes, resulting in inflammatory pain on either side of the elbow (the
outside for tennis players and the inside for golfers).
Source: activebeat.com
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