Sports Injuries
Sports Injuries
When an athlete becomes injured, there’s so much more involved than the pain and inconvenience of being injured. Athletes rely on their bodies to continue doing what they love to do. A sports injury may slow them down or take them off the field completely. If the injury isn’t treated properly, they may find themselves out of the game permanently.
Injuries can occur from a traumatic injury such as a hard tackle on the field or via repetitive motion strain such as the constant use of your wrist and elbow when swinging a racket. Injuries can also occur if athletes are not properly trained and thus left vulnerable to strains and sprains. Repetitive strain injuries can often be avoided if proper exercise and therapeutic treatments are used in a preventative sense.
Some of the most common sports injuries include shin splints, Achilles tendonitis, hamstring strain, sprained ankle, plantar fasciitis and tennis elbow. Left untreated or poorly treated, chronic conditions such as degeneration, arthritis and chronic pain can occur. All sports injuries require proper attention to help you get back on the field doing what you love to do!
Massage therapy, neuromuscular therapy, Active Isolated Stretching, Muscle Balancing and other treatment modalities such as instruction on proper, fluid movement and training exercises can all help prevent sports injuries from occurring. Given optimum musculoskeletal health as well as education on training and recovery, your performance on the field may be enhanced.
No matter what the sports injury, there are three phases of healing that all need to be addressed. At the root of all pain, there is a process taking place that is the body’s normal response to any injury or degenerative condition, and at each phase of healing, there are specific treatments necessary to promote faster more efficient healing to avoid chronic pain in the future and get you back in the game sooner.
The first phase is inflammation, which is the body’s way of attempting to protect an area that is injured. Inflammation, along with nerve entrapment can cause painful compression of the nerves and other spinal components.
As well, proper fluid movement is hampered. This means that nourishing, healing fluids are restricted and toxic fluids from the injury remain in the tissue. Addressing this inflammation is crucial to the healing process. Passive motion should be used at this point to reduce the inflammation.
The second phase is the repair phase where your body attempts to replace the damaged tissue with new collagen. Nutritional supplements such as vitamin C are essential to this process.
The third phase is the remodeling phase in which the new collagen needs to be properly aligned. This new collagen is irregular and in order for it to function properly, it needs a little help being remodeled with the "appropriate techniques and forms of therapy”.
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