Cross Training Modalities As A Form Of Injury Prevention

The CrossFit is becoming more and more popular workout worldwide and due to the severity of the exercises, it is logical to assume that more injuries might occur. According to the authors who performed a research about injuries due to CrossFit exercises, they found out that people are not at a higher risk of experiencing injury compared to other similar workouts. However, authors confirmed that there is a higher probability to experience injury while participating in a CrossFit workout as compared to

Michael Fredericson, M., *, Tammara Moore, PT, Muscular Balance, Core Stability, and Injury Prevention for Middle- and Long-Distance Runners. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 2005, 16, 669–689.

Majority of sports injuries are muscular strains of the lower limb. These injuries make up a third of all sports referrals to sports physicians and their frequency and disabling effect is well documented according to recent literature. The most common muscular strains of the lower limb are hamstring strains which accounts for 12-16% of all injuries in athletes with a re-injury rate of 22-34% in a much recent research. Although systematic epidemiological studies within athletics are scarce, testimonies from coaches and athletes are consentient, pointing to a high frequency of hamstring injuries, especially in sprinting. Throughout the last several decades, several serious attempts have been made to understand the cause of hamstring muscle strain

injury and the variability in responses due to injury level, the training protocols proposed might be challenging.

To illustrate, I will first analyze the severity of the injury by determining whether or not it is a permanent or temporary injury. By doing so, it would allow me to dictate which program I must design for the individual. In other words, if my patient has an injury that may be permanent, I must structure a program that will be effective for a long course of duration. Then I will identify the type of injury in order to give me a better understanding of what the program regime should focus on. For example, if my patient has a torn ACL, I must design a program that will allow the strengthening of surrounding muscles of the knee without causing additional damage to the injury. At last, I will examine the athlete’s history of injuries in order to conclude whether or not the individual has been through a similar situation. For this reason, if my patient has gone through a similar situation, I would have him reflect back to that injury in order for himself to re-visualize the process of overcoming an injury. In like manner, I would evaluate the athlete’s psychological treatment of injury by first making a

It is difficult to imagine thought in the modern world without the competitive intercollegiate sports that people should be aware of what injured student-athletes deal with. According to Kremer, Moran, Walker, and Craig (2012), these injuries continuously increases in elite and intense degree in sports and can be career threatening for young athletes. With the growing interest of sports among universities, the aggressiveness in sport also increases and thus resulting to possible injuries among student-athletes. Common long term injuries can occur in the lower and upper body. Baima (2009) states that the common lower body injuries athletes’ acquire are anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear and Achilles tendon injury, most of them happen among basketball, soccer, and football athletes. The common upper body injuries, according to Anderson, Parr, and Hall (2009), are rotator cuff injury and shoulder ligamentous injuries, specifically the Glenohumeral (GH) joint, which are prone among football, swimming, and tennis athletes. According to Baima (2009), an injury could be acquired with or without colliding with something. It is, however, important to be reminded that student-athletes inevitably cannot escape from these injuries when training or competing.

Injury prevention is the effort to prevent or reduce the severity of bodily injuries caused by external mechanisms, such as accidents before they occur. These injuries are often the products of poor injury prevention habits which could be the failure to effectively warm up before physical activity and inadequate nutrition. These poor habits create a lead into numerous injuries like; hamstring strains, torn muscles, and shoulder impingement. Injuries like these are most common among athletes, specifically sports, where the integration of weight training is crucial for success. These injuries generally have a negative impact on the performance of athletes because they are reoccurring. How can we promote awareness about these common, yet impactful,

Jane, a 13-year-old female wants to join her cross-country team at her school; Jane is a beginner with no endurance, as well has no history of strength training, but has participated in gym class at school. She has no injuries and has come to me in the sports off-season; this season last roughly 14 weeks, and does not need to be sport-specific. While paying close mind that this season will fall during the winter months. We will use this season to focus on improving her tolerance for her later training and competition days. She will be participating in 2-mile runs during her competitions, and wants to improve in her endurance while still reaching a shorter timed run and improvement in her strength to assist with prevention of injuries.

For many sports with congested fixtures recovery between games is very important to ensure players are at their best for the matches. An example of a period where this is particularly true is the Christmas period with football with most teams facing a high number of games in a short period, sometimes only 2 days between games. Without proper recovery modalities players, can suffer from delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and from a study by Cheung, Hume & Maxwell (2003) it was found that DOMS reduces athletic performance due to the muscle soreness and the damage done to the muscle and caused a decrease in strength and power, with a greater effect on strength and power during eccentric contractions. A study by Byrne, Twist and Eston (2004) discussed the muscle damage caused by high force eccentric exercise. They found that the stretch-shortening cycle(SSC) what occurs during a drop jump, causes muscle damage in the muscle and therefore contributes to DOMS and is similar to the damage done by running.

In the article, “Experience does not influence injury-related joint kinematics and kinetics in distance runners,” Agresta, Peacock, Housner, Zernicke, and Zendler are examining whether or not running experiences aides in the reduction of injury risk. The reason they decided to conduct this study is because early epidemiological studies and recent investigations have found that novice runners have a higher injury rate when compared to recreational runners and ultra-marathon runners. Among runners, the knee tends to be where the injuries occur. Yet, they do note the healthy runner effect bias in which the injury prone runners discontinue running, so the healthy runners accumulate the most experience. Nevertheless, they hypothesize that injuries

In the 1970's, thousands of people took to the road with a new trend of exercise----running. It was fairly easy; just put one foot in front of the other as fast as you can and go as far as you can. Feel the burn in your chest? The sweat trickling down your face? The throb in your knees as your foot pounds into the ground with every step? Well then, you're exercising! You’re running! Since then, running has become a dominant factor in sports and fitness; a factor so prevalent that the number of musculoskeletal injuries due to running has also increased over the last quarter century. These chronic injuries are usually due to overuse, improper training techniques, or a combination of the two.

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Cross Training Principal Box 5. Cross-training can be done as to give your running muscles a chance to recover. When you exercise hard, your muscles break down so by doing cross training you are recovering those muscles slowly and making the better and ready for the next exercise you do. The benefits of cross training are that it can make it easier for you to recover from injuries such as a back or knee problems. It also benefits you by helping you heal slowly, it also allows you to recover your muscles without putting stress on your joints. Activities such as biking, swimming, and stretches. Cross training overall increases our fitness levels by reviving our muscles so we can do our next workout even better and faster, so it is improving our

Traditionally warm-up protocols have included a submaximal aerobic component such as jogging coupled with either static or dynamic streteches (Bradley et al. 2007, Faigenbaum et al. 2006, Young and Behm 2002). However there have been a large body of research that have established that static stretching impaired maximal muscular performance (Behm et al. 2006, Faigenbaum et al. 2006, Power et al. 2004). Many present athletes and coaches still use static stretching within their warm-up protocols despite research displaying the negative or null influence it has maximal muscular performance (Kay and Blazevich, 2012).

Every athlete experiences at least one injury, from something as little as a pulled muscle to something as serious to a ligament tear. As a result of sports injuries, many star players have been sitting on the bench rather than getting into the game. A solution to this problem is a sports injury prevention program. Sports injury prevention programs have many beneficial effects on athletes, both mentally and physically. Sports injury prevention is a program that will help educate students about how to take care of their bodies, reduce injuries, and keeping not only themselves but others safe while playing sports. Sports injury prevention programs should be incorporate in training because they are important not only for athletes but for coaches