Sports injuries result from individual factors including weak muscular and bony structure, past injuries or bone disorders, or physical factors including bad weather conditions, breaching the sports rules or starting sports activities when out-of-practice. Treatment of sports injuries will depend on the type and severity of injury. A condition considered as a simple twisting can be a fractured bone in fact.
Physiotherapy can help the rehabilitation of the injury site, and can include exercises to increase strength and flexibility and restore the capability of movement. Going back to sports after injury depends on the assessment of the doctor or physiotherapist.
The following are required to prevent sports injuries:
- Overactivity and repetitive strains must be avoided.
- The period of training or “heating-up” activities neglected.
- Stretching exercises must be performed after heating up and after heating up.
- Choice of shoes and replacing the shoes before excessive wear are important.
- The ground is important.
- To have a balanced diet, to rest regularly, not becoming dehydrated and considering the electrolyte balance are important.
- Exercise level and period must be increased with the increasing level of training.
Diagnosis and treatment of sports injuries require the works of a team, which properly should include orthopedists and traumatology specialists, sports physicians, physical therapy and rehabilitation specialists, physiotherapists and other specialists concerned in the inured organs and tissues.