Injuries are a fact of life if you are into contentious sports. Whether you are running through the mountains or on the field, the odds of you eventually falling, being hit, or suffering some trauma are significant. The question thus becomes how best to ameliorate the extent of the injury when it comes, and how best to understand what’s happened to you so as to prevent it from getting worse. In this article, Here are some common injuries that athletes encounter.
Fractures and dislocations
Fractions and dislocations are horribly common, and can be a clean break or a skin tearing compound, and can happen in any sport. They can happen as a result of impact with somebody else or the ground, or as a stress fracture due to repetitive stressing of the bone when running, for example. You can also dislocate your bones by falling or colliding with other players, and this happens when two bones that meet at a joint become separated. Hand and shoulder dislocations are most common, but knee, hip and elbow dislocations can also take place.
Achilles tendonitis
Numerous athletes complain of the severed Achilles tendons. Most of the competitive athletes with detached Achilles are referred to the surgical consultation. The athletes who have been suffering from Achilles tendonitis for years need treatment for three times a week.
Traumatic Brain Injury
Your head
is akin to an egg, with the brain being the yolk floating around inside, protected by the liquid in which it is suspended. But should your head suffer a sufficiently nasty bump, your mind is liable to bang up against the inside and bruise or bleed? Athletes in football, ice hockey, soccer, wrestling, basketball, and cheer leading are most at risk. This injury can run the range of skull fractures, blood clots and damage to the brain itself, and can be anything from a mild concussion to a more severe condition like Second-Impact Syndrome.
Stress fractures
Injuries like calcaneus that affect the bones of the foot are the most common endurance injury. The symptoms include tenderness, pain, and swelling but not limited to the stress fractures. A competitive runner is suspected to a stress fracture is sent to the MRI for confirmation of the actual source of the problem. Depending on the images if they reveal a stress fracture or reaction, the athlete is sidelined for a minimum of 6 to 8 weeks.