Sports Related Injuries
SPORTS related injuries are brought about by lack of understanding of the activity’s pros and cons to the body or the body’s capability in relation to how it is adaptable to movements and or routines of the sports discipline.
Commonly, sports injuries involves muscles, ligaments and joints. This are the same parts that we take into consideration when we engage in sports. Accidents do happen but you can always increase the percentage of prevention by not getting too excited in sports activity without the preliminary preparations, especially if the sports you want to engage in is new. Warm-up is a must for everyone, either for seasoned athletes, as our system needs to be activated every time it has to engage in something like sports activity. When that system is turned on, it activates the body parts involved in the activity with the help of specific preliminary movements to get it started.
Warm-up is purposely to ignite the blood flow to the muscles and become more flexible, and could reduce the occurrence of injuries. But sports related injuries are not only caused by lack of warm-up and preliminary movements that sets the body for a more extensive routine.
A large contributor to this is also pushing oneself too much like there is no tomorrow. Many trainers advice to take it gradually because improvements cannot be done in one day and leave something for tomorrow and get back on it if your body has adjusted to take more. Pushing oneself too much causes fatigue and in the occurrence of fatigue, it weakens the defensive capability of the body and increases the possibility of injury.
The human body is capable of adapting but not necessarily in a blast, it needs time to decipher and accept the change that is being introduce, because rushing it could mean system overload that could cause a catastrophic damage to the body that could at worse cause not only injury but damage.
Proper conditioning of the body and specific or relevant muscles is essential in injury prevention plus taking into consideration gradual progression will give you maximum benefit. Train with the supervision of an expert and all of this will be taken into consideration and you can train with less worry of injury.