Alway Injuries In Sports

Sports can be very beneficial to those who participate in them like Christopher Bergland states “regular physical activity improves quality of life and optimizes the function of brain, body, and mind throughout a lifespan” (2014). Sports can be very good, but can also have their drawbacks in the form of injuries. Injuries in sports are nothing new especially in physical sports such as football, or boxing. Though some sport’s athletes are more susceptible to injury than others many athletes will have some form of injury, even if they play a sport like track and field that has no physical contact. Sports injuries can be found from the youngest athletes to the most elite. Injuries can vary between a not so serious injury in a serious one that can put an athlete out of their sport for a time, or possibly indefinitely. This makes it important for athletes and coaches know about and understand sports injuries due to the many ways athletes can get hurt, the different injuries that can occur in an athlete, and ways of treating sports injuries.

Injuries in sports can be caused by many different circumstances, some of which are not

Sweeping pain in an athlete under the rug as if it is nothing and can be gotten over by pushing through it many times can be the very thing that takes the injury from being bearable to unbearable. Understanding that hard work pays off is important as Zach Hambrick says” there is no denying that deliberate practice is necessary to, say, become a great musician or athlete or artist” (2014). Hard work is always necessary to become good at something, but when your work taxes the body to the point of pain it is time to rest. Educating coaches and athletes on injuries from the way they come about to the way to heal them can be a step in the right direction to having healthier and better performing athletes with a decrease in the number of