What is Sports Injury
Sports injuries are different from regular injuries and mainly affect an athlete. Sports injuries happen while participating in sports, training and or exercises. Overtraining, lack of conditioning, and inappropriate technique of performing a certain task leads to sport injuries. Neglecting to warm up prior to exercising or playing any physical sports also increases the risk of injuries. Although, sports injuries are mainly found in athletes involved with any form of physical sports, there are another species of athletes – the weekend athletes (engaging in sports only during weekend). This kind of “athletes” are actually more prone to such injuries, owing to their sedentary work week and the sudden weekend physical exploits that are bound to take its toll on their bodies.
What Should I do if I Suffer a Sports Injury?
RICE: Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation.
Rest: the period of rest should be long enough that you are able to use the affected limb with the majority of function restored and pain essentially gone.
Ice: A good method is ice to ice the affected are 20 minutes of each hour or alternation of ice on and off for 20 minutes each, for a 24–48 hour period.
Compression: Compression aims to reduce swelling that results from the inflammatory process the occurs when you tear or sprain a ligament or muscle. It should fit snug so as to not move freely, but still allow expansion for when muscles contract and fill with blood.
Elevation: aims to reduce edema by increasing venous return of blood to the systemic circulation. This will result in less swelling which reduces pain.
How Can We Help?
Depending on the kind of injury, it takes a number of weeks or months for one to recover completely. Our physiotherapist helps one with gentle exercises that stimulates the tissues and muscles of the injury for the restoration of complete physical movement prior to the injury level.
The physiotherapists gradually introduce various stretching and strengthening exercises with reduction of pain. Our physiotherapists offer customized recovery program as per the type of injury, so as to better facilitate the entire recovery process.
So if you are on the outlook of a trained sports physiotherapist then just get in touch with us.
