How can you prevent sports injuries?

As the concept of healthy living and healthy work continues to gain popularity, more and more people are starting to exercise for their own health, and the methods of exercise have become more diverse as the quality of life has improved. Then in this process, it is inevitable that we get hurt. So what should we pay attention to when exercising in order to effectively avoid and prevent sports injuries? The editor will give you two tips.

During physical exercise, if sports injuries occur frequently, it will not only affect health, study and work, but also cause adverse psychological effects. Therefore, the prevention of sports injuries is more important than treatment. To prevent the occurrence of sports injuries, self-protection is of great significance. Through years of teaching practice, the commonly used self-protection methods are summarized as follows:

When you need to stop suddenly when running at high speed. For example, in a 60-meter or 100-meter race, after an athlete quickly crosses the finish line, he or she should not brake suddenly but slow down and stop slowly. Otherwise, the ankle, knee, hip, waist and other joints will be severely injured.

When a human body falls from a height and lands on the ground. For example, when landing in a long jump, landing from a gymnastics apparatus, or landing from a high altitude in a basketball game, you must be careful to bend your knees and keep your legs together to cushion the impact before standing up, otherwise the ankle, knee and other joints will be impacted to varying degrees.

The landing was weightless and unstable. For example, tackles from behind are common in football. At this time, you must first keep calm, then quickly lower your head, bend your elbows, curl up your body, use your shoulders and back to touch the ground and roll over to reduce the strong reaction force of the ground. Do not support the ground with straight arms or brake forcefully, otherwise it will cause upper limb or shoulder injuries.

A strong competitive sport. In sports such as basketball, football, handball, etc., you should pay attention to a certain degree of abduction of the upper limbs and maintain a relative degree of tension to prevent sudden external violent actions. In addition, lowering the center of gravity and strengthening the foundation are also good self-protection methods.

We should not drink too much water before exercise, and we should warm up thoroughly to prevent various emergencies such as sudden leg cramps. At the same time, the purpose of our exercise is to strengthen our body and benefit our mind and body, not to compete and not stop until we win or lose. The amount of exercise we do must be based on our own situation to avoid sports injuries as much as possible.