What are the causes of sports injuries?

Seeing the athletes' agile postures on the sports field often makes people envious, and watching them overcome all obstacles often makes them gain many fans. However, after retiring, athletes are often plagued by injuries. There are even some athletes who should have been in their prime, but ended their sports careers prematurely due to injuries, which is really sad. So, what are the common sports injuries? How are they caused?

1. Muscle and ligament strain:

Internal factors: insufficient training level, poor flexibility, strength, coordination, and poor physiological structure

External factors: insufficient warm-up, venue, temperature, humidity, poor class content, and insufficient professionalism of the coach

Prevention: Choose a coach, venue and appropriate courses, exercise in normal weather conditions, warm up sufficiently, and proceed step by step.

Treatment: The first 24 hours is the acute phase: Methods: stop exercising, apply cold compress, bandage, and elevate the injured part.

After 24 hours, it is the recovery period: massage, micro-movement, rehabilitation or restorative exercise

2. Joint sprain:

Internal factors: poor technique, poor coordination, weak muscles around joints, poor physiological structure, and poor physical strength due to fatigue

External factors: insufficient warm-up, slippery ground, improper use of equipment, poor coaching, poor content (fast movements, too many turns and jumps)

Prevention: Warm up thoroughly, understand the use of equipment, proceed step by step, and ask your coach or yourself to slow down.

Treatment: The first 24 hours is the acute phase: Methods: stop exercising, apply cold compress, bandage, and elevate the injured part.

After 24 hours, it is the recovery period: massage, micro-movement, rehabilitation or restorative exercise

3. Mental exhaustion:

Symptoms: Feeling cold, sweating, pale or red face, headache, dizziness, weakness, and exhaustion.

Prevention: Coaches or practitioners should pay attention to the control of exercise volume.

Treatment: Leave hot places, loosen and wet clothes. After he wakes up, give him some water slowly and observe him carefully. The patient should not do too much exercise that day.

Because athletes often perform overloaded exercise, joint injuries, muscle strains, etc. are inevitable. Some non-athletes may also suffer these sports injuries if they are not careful during exercise. Therefore, you must pay attention to doing it within your ability when exercising, and be sure to warm up before exercising, so as to reduce the occurrence of sports injuries.