Muscle overuse injuries are the most common sports related injuries among the professional athletes and the weekend warriors. Engaging in regular exercising programs and workout regimes inevitably results in muscle overuse injuries. The muscles are strong, though fibers, however, the repetitive motions and the intense workout regime can stretch them beyond their strength, resulting in an overuse injury.
While exercising strengthens and tones the body allowing for the muscles to get stronger and firmer, it also applies an immense pressure that can easily lead to severe muscle overuse injuries.
This common, yet overwhelming injury occurs when people engage in a physical activity too intensely, too long, and too often, blocking the body to breathe
Hamstring injuries are one of the most common injuries in sports. They are especially common in sports that require a high degree of power and speed such as soccer and Gaelic football. (Sports Medicine Australia).
Muscle endurance is the ability to perform a lot of repetitions against a given resistance for a long period of time. The combination of strength and endurance results in muscle endurance. Muscle endurance is used in may sports such as rowing, swimming, cycling, distance running, field hockey and American football. Normally, an endurance muscle program involves lifting about 12-25 repetitions of moderate loads. In some cases, this is inadequate for many sports such as boxing, canoeing and x-cross skiing.
A muscle trauma which, is also known as a muscle strain is an injury which, occurs within the muscle tendon. The pain can be classified into three different sections which are; mild, moderate and severe. The main cause of a muscle strain is when the muscle is overstretched since the muscles have probably been working too hard. If a muscle tear occurs, it can also damage the attaching tendons within the muscles because, the muscle tissues are stretched and then torn (2).
Evidence of lifting weights can be traced back to the origins of man. As far back as cave painting and scrolls, there exists evidence of weightlifting. Initially as an expression of strength, to competition and functional training, weightlifting has carved its path through the ages. It has taken on a new role in the modern world; athletic training. With an entirely new emphasis in sports on speed, strength, and flexibility; weightlifting is more popular than ever. Unfortunately, young athletes often do more harm than good by injuring themselves lifting. When these uneducated lifters try to jump right into a program, lifting more than they should, an injury is imminent. What is overlooked, is that when weightlifting is done correctly, it has a great potential to prevent injuries instead of cause them. Understanding how the body works, using proper technique on the appropriate lifts, and participating in regular physical activity can greatly reduce the risk of athletic injuries.
There are many ways you can prevent injuries from happening before they do occur. Make sure you lift the right amount of weight to ensure that your body won’t wear down or you won’t injure yourself. Lifting more than you need to will only make your body worse. Using poor form can get you hurt quicker and easier than any other way. Make sure that you are using the correct form even if that means hiring a trainer or having a spotter. Workouts that you know can help because you will know the correct position. Workouts without machinery and weights have a lesser risk of hurting you. Cassidy says, “Years of intense workouts take a toll on your body..... Cartilage wears down and muscles, tendons, and ligaments can become less limber” (1).
Injuries can be common while participating in organized sports, competitions, training exercises, or fitness activities says Darice Britt. “Poor training methods, inadequate warm-up, and lack of conditioning are a few of the causes of sports injuries.” (Britt) Although on the other hand, Apostolos Theophilou, DPT, clinical coordinator of the Physical Therapist Assisting program at South University says that Injuries can be caused by a combination of those things, not necessarily the only reasons. “Fatigue and overuse are also significant contributors to an injury, and not excluding also the psychosocial aspects and dehydration that cause athletes to be prone to injuries.” (Theophilou)
High impact sport injuries are really dangerous. If you get hit hard the results could be bad. The long term negative health effects of high impact sports injuries are concussions and CTEs. The first reason why I think high impact sport injuries are dangerous is concussions. Getting hit in the head hard causes one. Concussions make you see blurry, you can forget things, and you can get a lot of headaches.
...one unlucky blow to the head could cause a person to change forever. Injuries in physical activities are not the only threat for an athlete to be cautious of, Performance enhancing substances and stress can also take a harmful toll on the body. Substances containing ingredients that are hardly researched are allowed into drinks, powders, and pills to assist athletes. This can be more dangerous than the potential injuries. Stress is also a key factor in one’s health. Too much stress can wear down the body and mind. Consequently, any time an athlete engages in physical activity they are at risk of injury.
Sports play essential roles in the lives of many people. Each year, nearly 36 million kids ages 5-18 play on an organized sports team in the U.S. (Statistic Brain). Those kids are the future of sports in the U.S. and with too many of them injured at a young age, future sports talent will be lost. Overuse injuries are increasing in today’s youth sports as parents and coaches push young athletes to specialize in sports at young ages and play all year round in the hopes of one day making a college or professional team roster. Overuse injuries are mostly preventable with the proper precautions taken by parents, athletes and coaches. With the rise of overuse injuries in the recent past, the need to spread awareness to parents, coaches and young athletes becomes more necessary. If parents are not aware of the
Nutrition in foods and beverages are still important for athletes and exercisers today. A few years ago body builders were the only people to take nutrition seriously (Bevereley 2000). John Anderson and Robert McMurray (1998) wrote that exercise and physical activity damage a person's muscles, tendons and ligaments. These tissues can be repaired quickly. Repair can take from a few minutes to few weeks. Good nutrition helps to aid in the repair of these tissues.
In order to fully understand the impact and effect of overtraining, defining and establishing the difference of what overtraining is from other conditions, such as overreaching, is necessary. Overtraining is defined as the accumulation of both training and non-training stresses producing a long-term effect on the athlete’s performance capacity, with or without physical and psychological overtraining signs and symptoms in which recovery of the performance capacity will take weeks to months (Halson, 2004 p. 969). Overreaching, however, is defined by the accumulation of training and non-training stresses with a short-term effect on the a...
According to the American Institute of Stress, stress can be defined as an individual’s response, physical, mental or emotional, to an event that causes a demand for change (Selye, 1936). For athletes, that demand for change can be caused by an injury, which ultimately can have a significant impact on overall stress levels. While a physical injury can cause psychological stress, mental trauma can similarly affect an athlete physically. An athlete’s psychological stability has a great affect on an athlete’s susceptibility to pain and can alter the response to and recovery from an injury (Ahern, 1997).
Weightlifting, recently, or working out, has been a big part of my life. For a little over 21 years of my life I was a small framed person. No, I didn’t like it but I dealt with it. I joined the military in September of 2012, weighing a measly 145lb at 6’0”. Over the first couple months in the military, through Basic and AIT, I gained close to 20lb. Some fat, some muscle. I felt better about myself. I didn’t look “small” anymore.
While not many acute injuries, or injuries that are associated with a traumatic event can be prevented, nearly all overuse injuries can be! Nevertheless, sports medicine physicians receive training to treat any kind of injury; acute, chronic, overuses or even psychogenic pain. Sports medicine dates back to Susruta of India who was the first “recorded” physician to prescribe moderate daily exercise around 600 B.C. (Tipton). Since then, professionals have redesigned and renovated the techniques and equipment used in this field. Sports medicine physicians go through years of education and training in order to effectively treat and interact with patients, as well as thrive in any workplace they are needed.
...y is serious enough. Otherwise, one might have to decrease the amount of time they workout or how hard/how often they work out. The area that has been injured should have ice placed on it after the person works out or has physical therapy. Moreover, anti-inflammatory medicine is used. In order to prevent this type of energy, one should always warm up at the beginning and end of a workout. It is important to also use the right equipment (for example, using jogging shoes when one goes jogging). Exercise should not be increased more than 10 percent every week and the right technique should always be used during exercise. Conditioning is also crucial for prevention and it should occur 2-3 weeks prior to the workout. Also, if one feels pain, they should pay attention to it because it could be a sign of injury. One should also allow their injury time to heal completely.