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Sports Injury Research Paper

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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 …show more content…

She has stress fractures on both of her tibia bones so the doctor did not prescribe crutches for her. Khylie did not require surgery because her stress fractures were not really that sever. Also the treatment of bed rest allowed her not to finish volleyball. The doctor said the less weight bearing load on the legs is the best for her to recover faster. Khylie's treatment was supposed to be 6 week but the healing treatment was just finally finish in January. For stress fracture the rehabilitation the recovering athlete they are put into to programs with muscle strengthening and generalized conditions. These programs are to help from the injury to occur again and strengthen the bones of the leg. Most exercises are with little weight bearing and if stress fractures are super server they can also be on bed rest or in braces. Most people are out for 6 weeks and come back and go to therapy to rebuild the muscle strength around the bone taking the pressure off of them. For Khylies situation she was out for 6-8 weeks and she didn't not have to go to therapy but still feels pain sometimes. Khylie has to also cope with not being able to play volleyball or do anything with excessive exercise. She also had setbacks because she had to walk to all her classes all over which never let her legs have a break. The improvement from now to then is being able to do some exercise with little

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