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Sports Injury
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Table of Contents
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Sports Injury
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Osgood-Schlatter
Disease (OSD)
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Sports Injury
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Patellar
Tendinitis
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Treatment
Details
Options Patellar Tendon
Orthotics • Foot orthotics to support
the arch for better shock
absorption in jumping
Knee-cap (Patellar)
and other impact sport
Additional Ap- • other physiotherapy treat-
proaches ments such as ultrasound Patellar Tendon
and, laser might help in
pain relief during the
acute phase of healing
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Is Your Game
Hamstrung?
Basketball players tend to focus a lot on the
quadriceps (muscles in front of the thigh) when
doing strength training often neglecting the ham-
strings. This severe muscle strength imbalance of-
ten leads to hamstring pulls or tears. And just as im-
portantly, players with weak hamstrings also simply
don’t play as well as shown in a study of national
basketball teams.
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2. Swelling,
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levate the injured area above the heart level. For example for an
ankle injury, when lying down, raise the ankle slightly above the
body with pillow. Elevation decreases bleeding, swelling and pain.
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Hamstring of Steel very hard to get you back up. Watch for
excessive movements from the back. If you
This exercise is great to build up really strong ham- feel your back muscles tightening up much
strings. and starts to ache, you could be using your
back extensor muscles to compensate.
Start position
• Place your knees on the glute-ham bench with To make it easier to start with, bend at the hips
your ankles firmly supported and assume an a little or use your hands to help you back up
upright position, with hips and shoulders in at first. As you get stronger, you will be able to
line with knees. If you don’t a bench, work complete the movement up and down smooth-
with a partner to hold your feet down. ly. If at first you cannot lean very far forward,
this will also improve with practice. Aim to
• Tighten your buttocks and tuck your tummy get as far forward as possible to work the ham-
in so your pelvis is in the neutral position. strings through a full range of motion.
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Iliotibial Band
Friction Syndrome
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The Buckling
Knee
ACL Injury
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Meniscal Injury
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• Gluteus Medius
Immediate swelling and severe pain in the knee are
common signs of this Triad injury. However, there • Gastrocneumius (calf)
are occasions where there will be a delay in the onset
of swelling or even no swelling at all. Remember how
Besides doing strengthening exercises, slowly getting
you injured the knee. It helps your Doctor or Physi-
back into sports specific training is essential. This is
otherapist in diagnosing this problem.
so that your muscles can develop an anticipatory reac-
tion (feed-forward mechanism) to prevent injury.
Solving the Problem
Sports taping of the knee to support the ACL and
Sadly, the ACL doesn’t heal on its own due to the poor MCL can also be done as a temporary measure for the
blood supply to the ligament. It would need to be re- athlete to cope with the injury until the end of the sea-
constructed surgically by using either your hamstring son.
tendon or patella tendon. Rehabilitation after surgery
normally takes about 6-9 months before the athlete is
able to go back to full training.
• Hamstrings
• Quadriceps (thigh)
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Snapping Ankle
Anatomy
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