sports medicine

Sport Medicine  

Sport medicine is also known as sport and exercise medicine, it is the study about the cure, prevention and treatment of physical health of individual.  

This field includes different health related professionals like exercise specialist, orthopedics, sports physical therapist and others. Basically, the sport medicine deals with the ways either they are surgical or non-surgical to treat and bring the athlete or sports person back to their active state.

Now let's have a glance on some common sport injuries:   

Sport Injuries  

These days many teenagers and children are participating in different physical activities like athletics and different sports, when things don’t go as planned injuries occurs like hurting their ankle, leg, tendons, foot, veins or bones.

Soft tissue injury:

soft tissue injury occurs when a player or athlete damages their muscles, ligaments or tendons while preform certain activity. It can be diagnosed by swelling or not being able to function with the certain part that is affected. 

Treatment

Rest is recommended: 

When you feel some kind of swelling or bruises on certain area, it's better to have rest and avoid practicing or performing activities that include the functioning of that part.  

Ice: 

Ice is very helpful and affective to reduce the swelling, but you should not apply ice directly on the affected area it will make it worse, its suggested to use some cloth or cover to hold ice and apply the ice covered in something. 

Compression: 

If there is bleeding or swelling on the affected area, you should compress it, compression will help to stop further bleeding and reduce the swelling. 

Hard Tissue Injury: 

Hard tissue injury is called as bone fracture, it is caused by the direct and powerful hit on the certain bone. Hard tissue injury is more painful than soft tissue injury and it takes more time to heal it than soft tissue injury.

Different types of bone fractures which are:

Open fracture:  

This is severe facture in which the bone comes out of the skin, and you are able to see you bone.

 

Closed fracture:  

In this fracture the bone breaks but don’t come out of skin. 

Stress fracture:  

This is fracture in which there is only a crack in bone, it is also called as hairline fracture. 

Segmental fracture:  

When a single and same bone breaks from two places we call it segmental fracture and this fracture is very painful. It takes too much time come back in its real state.

Prevention

We have often heard that prevention is better than treatment and it is fact that you should avoid somethings and be careful when you play or perform certain activity that can cause us injuries. Primary stage is to arrange a certified and professional trainer to guide and train the team or individual to avoid the risk of severe injury during performance. Sometimes we neglect and ignore the pain in our muscles and keep practicing and apply force and stress on the same muscle, but this can lead to injuries that can last for a long time and cause you permanent damage even after treatment. 

Regular check on your body while you warmup or prepare yourself to perform any activity can help you to prevent yourself from extreme injury.