Sport injuries not restricted to players alone, say experts
LUCKNOW: Sports injuries are not limited only to players or athletes. In fact, routine work like riding a bike can also cause injuries such as tennis elbow – a known injury among tennis players, say experts.
Addressing a gathering on World Health Day on Saturday, Prof Shish Kumar, HoD, sports medicine department at the KGMU said, “Accelerating a bike has similar impact on muscles as taking a backhand shot.”
Explaining further, he said the muscle that facilitated that movement stretched from wrist to elbow and the base too was at the elbow. So if the pull on the muscle was extensive, the outer side of the elbow would pain, which non-players fail to guess correctly.
“Every week I get such cases where non-players are diagnosed with sports injury,” said Prof Kumar.
He said the pain in the inner side of the elbow happened to be golfers’ elbow and could occur even while lifting a bucket full of water. The other examples of common sports injury are jumpers’ knee, caused by incorrect manner of rope skipping.
LUNG DISEASES ALSO A MAJOR PROBLEM
Prof Surya Kant, HoD, respiratory medicine, KGMU spoke on the major respiratory problems troubling people. Lung diseases account for 11% of all the deaths occurring in India and for 10% of all hospital admissions.
“According to WHO report, in 2014, of all the cases of tuberculosis, 1/4th were from India (approx.28 lakh). Every third person dying due to TB is an Indian. There are about 7.5 lakh people suffering from TB in Uttar Pradesh out of which 2.5 lakh approach government hospitals and 2.5 lakh seek private medical consultation. The rest of the 2.5 lakh TB patients are unaccounted for,” he said.
COPD is also one of the major chronic lung diseases, affecting around 3 crore people in India. The major predisposing factors were smoking, bio-mass fuel exposure and any kind of smoke causing air pollution, Prof Surya Kant said.
To summarize, the major causal agents of respiratory disorders in India included air pollution, smoking, exposure to chulha-smoke (biomass fuel), toxic gases released from automobiles and industries, infection, dietary habits (over consumption of fast food) and lifestyle, he said.
These respiratory disorders may be prevented or controlled by control of air pollution which could be achieved by afforestation, minimal use of automobiles, keeping industries away from residential areas, banning of smoking in public places and promotion of LPG gas stoves replacing chulhas.
CYCLE RALLY
A cycling event was organised by the Indian Medical Association at Janeshwar Mishra Park in the morning where doctors organised a camp for respiratory problems and provided free check-up. Chief medical officer Dr Narendra Agrawal inaugurated the programme that was coordinated by Dr Surya Kant.
A public lecture was organised at KGMU by the Institute of Para Medical Sciences. Dean Prof Vinod Jain delivered a lecture and coordinated an awareness rally that was flagged off by KGMU vice chancellor Prof MLB Bhatt. A debate was organised at the IMA Bhavan.