Prevention And Treatment Of Injuries

One of the most common truths that people have a problem with when the subject is contact sports is the injuries that are involved in playing such sports. Sports such as Football, Rugby, Lacrosse, and Hockey are all considered contact sports due to the volume of hitting and personal contact that occurs when one plays these kinds of sports. All though friendships and building one's character can take place when playing a contact sport, the risk outweigh the reward when it comes to the research done on injuries that occur every year when playing sports such as the ones

In 1987, Van Mechelen (1) proposed a "sequence of injury prevention" framework. In 2008 Van Tiggelen (2) also introduced a framework concerning the evaluation of preventive measure, using 4 stages of evaluation. Both frameworks are used within this article for the application of the following steps (figure1).

Using only the male and female data for basketball and soccer, female soccer players incurred 2.29 times more ACL injuries than males (Ireland, 1999). Female basketball players sustained 2.89 times the ACL injuries than males (Ireland, 1999). For this data noncontact was not the only mechanism of injury, the data consisted of contact, collision, ball contact, and surface contact as well (Ireland,

Roughly seventy percent of ACL injuries are non-contact in nature. To prevent non-contact ACL damages in feminine basketball

In this paper I will be researching ACL injuries in sports. Along with what causes these injuries to happen, how they can be prevent and if the footwear we use as athletes can make these injuries more or less likely to happen to us. I will also be looking closely into the reoccurring ACL injury in which Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls has been suffering from for the past few years.

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Injuries will occur, no matter the sport. The type of injury to occur depends on the gender of the player. Often, when players become injured, they are in denial about the repercussions of their injury and usually have a loss in confidence. Repercussions can tragically be career ending, long term or luckily short term. Understanding the injury and it’s impact on a player is important, however, knowing how to prevent the injury is more important.

The highest rate of sports related injuries for the youth is between the years of 5 to 14 years of age. As many as 20 percent of children who play sports get hurt, and about 25 percent of their injuries are classified as serious. As of now football is the number one sport that has the most injuries with the youth reported, with basketball falling in second behind it. Sprains, strains, fractures, and concussions are the most common injury between the age of 6-19 years old.

The most common injuries that many adolescents receive are contusions and strains (Adirim & Cheng, 2003). The ankle and the knee are the most commonly injured areas followed by less common injuries of the hand, wrist, elbow, shin, calve, clavicle, head, and neck (Adirim & Cheng, 2003). Sever’s disease is an injury to the heel whereas Little League elbow affects the elbow joint. Contact sports such as hockey and football report more contusion injuries due to the collisions that happen during the game (Adirim & Cheng, 2003). In contrast, non-contact sports such as running, soccer, and basketball report more muscle strain injuries. When an athlete is repetitively using their elbow, an injury called, Little League elbow may occur.

In pro-leagues such as the NBA, NFL, MLB, and many more, there is one common occurrence and it’s injuries. Sports players like Derrick Rose tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) because of improper landing and many more injuries have happened as a result of improper landing and not wearing certain gear. It is important for everyone to know how to prevent an injury or recover from an injury. Following these steps will help anyone prevent or recover from an injury.

A majority of all Americans have participated in at least one sport during their childhood and adolescent years. Differences exist in both contact and noncontact sports, but the likelihood of sports related injuries still occur due to physicality or the overuse or misuse of a particular body part. (www.stanfordchildrens.org). With the common occurrence of injuries in every sport, recent times have brought breakthroughs that help athletes recover faster and more effectively. Since its debut in ancient times, sports medicine has been a big part of all athletes’ lives with healing and recovering. From injuries such as ACL damage, shin splints, strains and sprains, muscle cramps, and concussions, sports-related injury is inevitable for most athletes but with the help of medicines and preventative measures injury can become more and more avoidable.

Throughout sports there has been many common injuries due to either the level of the sport, the practice of the sport, techniques learned, and the surroundings of the sports.My athlete has sustained her injury by these few examples . The athlete has played volleyball for 2 years now. My athlete is a female sophomore at basic and 15 years old. She started playing volleyball her freshman year and has enjoyed every second when she was able to play. Playing volleyball she has played outside hitter and middle in volleyball. While playing volleyball she has obtained stress fracture in both of her legs her sophomore year. During freshman year she was starting to have shin splints in both of her legs due to her never playing sports so her bones were

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A sports injury can be described as just an injury you get while playing sports. A sports injury could be just a sprained ankle, hamstring pull, shin splints, acl tear and a groin pull. Of course there are a lot more types of sports injuries that can be specified but those are just some of the more common injuries, the most common injuries that occur in sports would be strains and sprains (Hoffman, 2005).

Injuries play a big role in an athlete's career and his or her overall health, although minor injuries are often nothing to worry about they can lead to something serious especially if the injury is repeatedly being aggravated. scrapes, cuts, bruises, and broken bones are all things to worry about. When a player is injured he or she is losing play time and money and why risk this when there is small but giant steps that can be taken to prevent injuries. But brain injuries are something much more serious even if the player says not to worry because something worse than losing playtime is losing your life. Albert C. hergenroeder has written an article on preventing sports injuries, he says that there are 3 million sports injuries among kids around