3.10.2010
Sport Injury Prevention
This guide is to help you properly
treat injuries with a goal of preventing a chronic injury. Let’s start with how to prevent an injury in
the first place. Please read “Oops, I
Injured myself” for proper treatment of soft-tissue injuries.
Conditioning
Proper aerobic and cardiovascular conditioning
is vital for preventing injury, but sports-specific training is also imperative.
Weekend warriors are usually not well-conditioned and may not be proficient in
the sport they are playing. They
predispose themselves to injury and are notorious for their high rates of
injury. So please set a comfortable and
consistent pace and ease into exercise.
Trying to "
play your-self into shape" is a mistake. Pro
basketball players don’t become pro because they play a ton of basketball all
week. They incorporate targeted drills
and muscle strengthening programs in their training schedule (e.g., rotator
cuff strengthening so they don’t throw out a shoulder; quadriceps and patella femoral
strengthening exercises to protect the knees...
