Well4ever in Putney has years of experience treating and rehabilitating people suffering from sports injuries. Sports injuries occur when you hurt some part of your body as a consequence of exercising and or playing a sport. For example, running, cycling, football, kayaking, rugby and so on. Sports injury can happen to anyone who is doing a sport and can vary from minor injuries to extreme and severe injuries that require immediate medical attention.
Sports injuries can be categorised as acute or chronic. Acute injuries, also called a traumatic injury, happens suddenly during the exercise. Chronic injuries, on the other hand, occur after you have been doing a particular activity for a long time, causing repeated strain to one area of the body. Chronic sports injury can also affect people who are do not exercise, but injure themselves through poor posture, or do to the requirements of their work.
Some typical sports injuries include:
- Sprains and strains
- Knee injuries
- Swollen muscles
- Achilles tendon injuries
- Pain along the shin bone
- Fractures
- Dislocations
Acute and chronic sports injuries are recognisable from a number of signs. Acute injuries generally tend to be suddenly painful and it may become impossible to use the injured part of your body to continue your sport. The specific injured area may become visibly swollen and/or tender and you may not be able to move your joints as usual or a joint may be visibly out of place. Some common acute problems are sprains, strains and fractures.
Chronic injuries occur from playing a sport or exercising for a long time and are not only confined to sports players but can affect anyone doing a repetitive movement which applies some kind of pressure or strain to an area. Symptoms of an chronic sports injury tend to include localised pain when exercising or playing, swelling to the area and localised numbing, ache and dull pain when resting. Chronic injuries are often felt in the joints – elbows, wrists, ankles and knees.
It is absolutely crucial to rest the injured area and to stop playing and/or exercising. Time is needed for the body to heal and rehabilitate itself and throughout the duration of the healing process the injured area may remain fragile and particularly susceptible to re-injury.
Your local Putney clinic has a range of therapies available to help you recover from your sports injury naturally. We can help with osteopathy, sports massage, chiropractic and more.