Injury Prevention
Like most athletes, you undoubtedly want to lower your chances of incurring an injury while participating in your favourite sport.
Injury Articles
Injury articles main page! Below you'll find articles that teach how to train safely to prevent injuries, and show you what to do when you get injured.
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Injury
Bruised knee cartilage (patella femoral pain)
What Happened
A weak core allowed your thighbone to rotate out of place, causing your kneecap to rub against the femoral groove.
Knee Injury And Health Kinesiology
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A Knee Injury & Health Kinesiology
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Injury is always just ahead for the careless weight trainer. There's something inherently dangerous about pushing, tugging and straining against cold, hard iron with all your might. But how else are you going to stimulate those gains?
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An injury free lifestyle allows us to focus on getting the most out of life, gives us the ability to train consistently and to continue having fun at sporting activities.
"The injury symptoms will permanently disappear only after the patient has undergone a very specific exercise program, deliberately designed to stretch and strengthen and regain all parameters of fitness of the damaged structure or structures.
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11 Tips for Injury Free Weight Training
By Lee Hayward
Here is a list of some important safety tips that should be followed by all weight trainers. These tips can help prevent injury and help speed your progress.
The cumulative injury cycle illustrates how muscle imbalances originate. There is a trauma, which can result from repetitive motion with poor dynamic posture, or poor static posture.
Make Your Workout Injury-Proof
Date updated: December 11, 2006
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4 Health Fitness Training Stretches to Prevent Injury
Stretching exercises should be an integral part of your health fitness training program. Stretching improves the agility of your muscles, making them more flexible.
"Each cohort was then followed up over a 5-year period (1990-1994) with regard to three injury diagnosis groups (as registered in the national Hospital Discharge and Causes of Death registers) with documented socioeconomic differences: injuries due ...
Potential Injury Risk: As long as you're doing these stretches correctly, they will actually help to prevent injury.
Level of Fitness Required: N/A.
A regular walking program may even help older adults avoid injury -- by keeping them on their feet. For adults over 70 years old, the incidence of injury linked to falls is higher than for any other age group.
All I want is for people to stop telling other people that stretching is required to prevent injury.
INJURY: Knee Pain
You can't extend the leg or put your weight on it. Causes include ligament damage or an ACL injury.
The Right Doc:
An orthopedic physician. X-rays and an MRI should determine the extent of the injury and treatment ...
Injury
When working out with weights you need to be in full control of both the weights and your own body as it lifts and uses the weights. Careless weightlifting can result in injury.
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Injury as a Process
Traumatic injuries do happen. But more often it is the slow progression injuries that are far more sinister and very well may be the root cause of some traumatic injuries.
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An injury that damages the internal structure of the muscle. It is a partial tear of some of the small fibers that make up the muscle.
muscles
Contractile tissues used for many physiological functions, but primarily assist in movement ...
An injury to the ligament.
Static stretch
A simple muscle stretch that goes just to the point of gentle tension and is held steadily for several seconds without moving or bouncing.
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This injury is caused due to the swelling of tendon which is the result of tearing of the fibers. There is inflammation and warmth. This injury occurs when the person do repetitions in excess by lifting the bar.
Risks: Injury is always a possibility, especially in the area of the knee and foot. If you plan to begin a running program, ease into it gradually. Do not increase distance more than 10 percent per week.
If the injury is severe and there is a chance that the neck might be injured, it's very important to keep the injured person still with the head held straight while someone calls for emergency medical help.
If the injury is severe, you'll require tetanus injection if you haven't taken at least 3 shots earlier or if you haven't taken any dose in the last 5 years.
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To avoid injury, keep the back straight at all times, assisted by raising the head.
Make sure you move in a smooth motion throughout the lift.
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Avoiding Injury
The most important thing you can do to avoid injury is to increase your distance gradually.
Following injury, an inflammatory response occurs and the cells below the dermis (the deepest skin layer) begin to increase collagen (connective tissue) production. Later, the epithelial tissue (the outer skin layer) is regenerated.
Sprain - An injury to the ligament.
Super Set - Alternating back and forth between two exercises until the prescribed number of sets is completed.
Compress the injury by wrapping it securely in a bandage. Crepe bandages are best, and should be available at the pharmacy. A crepe bandage, once used, needn't be discarded. Simply wash the bandage, and store it in your cupboard or first aid box.
Strain: an injury to muscles or tendons.
Stroke volume: The amount of blood pumped per contraction (stroke) of the heart.
So to improve flexibility, help prevent injury (no matter what the studies say) and to just feel a sense of relaxation, try this quick and simple routine after your strength training workouts and before/after your cardio workouts.
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Strain - An injury to a muscle or tendon as a result of overstretching or an over-contraction.
Strength - A measure of the amount of force a muscle can generate when contracting against resistance.
Almost no chance of injury
Much easier to use proper form
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Overpronation - Excessive inward foot motion during running that can lead to injury. Learn how to choose running shoes.
Pectorals or "pecs" - The 2 pairs of muscles in the chest that work to pull the upper arms toward or across the chest.
Catabolism [back to top] The breakdown of lean muscles mass, normally as a result of injury, immobilization and poor dieting techniques.
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(No, dummy, do this three years after!) Folklore says to only use the ice for the first day or two (24 to 48 hours) after the injury, but actually it should be continued as long as it provides relief from pain and swelling (but if possible, ...
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Stretch tight muscles to release the kinks and avoid injury and diminish soreness. Tight muscles that delve into exercise can cramp up and tighten creating a pain that can stop you in your tracks, cause injury and cause muscle soreness.
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Important nitrogen quality for post-injury states. Builds up the immune system producing immunoglobulins and antibodies. Metabolizes sugars and organic acids. L-Arginine - Indispensable of optimum growth.
A personal trainer can help you with these or other issues, including low-back pain, rehabilitation from injury and pre/postnatal training.
Whatever you do, if you are involved in a sport or activity that has potential for injury, specifically head injury, use the proper equipment no matter what anyone else tells you.
Although a stretch may be very effective in terms of providing the athlete with ample leverage and isolation, the potential risk of injury from performing the stretch must be taken into consideration.
Stretching the arms and legs before and after exercising helps prepare the muscles for activity and helps prevent injury and muscle strain. Regular stretching also increases your range of motion, flexibility, and muscle function ...
Generally, in-home personal training process includes taking care of back injury prevention, body toning and sculpting, traditional strength training, Pilates and many other fitness programs.
When performing chin-ups, make sure not to swing or jerk as momentum will make the exercise less efficient and promotes injury. During the chin-up, the lats, teres major, rear delt and traps contract to bring the arms down (or body up).
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