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Sports injuries are not unusual, but avoiding them, especially the most common sports injuries, means more time to compete. Read these articles for tips on sports injury prevention and core stability exercises that can help reduce the risk of knee injuries, shoulder injuries, ankle injuries, rotator cuff injuries and other recurring plagues in the sporting world… To browse our library of free sports training articles, browse using the categories on the left or use the search box.
Acupuncture: is there any point?
Sports therapy: What athletes should know about using acupuncture to improve sport performance
Sports injuries: prevention and treatment of groin pain and the dreaded hernia
Understanding and dealing with hernia in sport
Sports injuries: preventing and treating hypothermia and cold weather related injuries
How to make the most of your training in cold weather
Back Injuries: the causes of back pain and how to prevent and treat it
How to keep your back in top condition and guidelines regarding when you can return to activity post back injury
Sports injuries: resistance training can accelerate recovery from back pain
Evidence suggests that resistance training is an excellent alternative method of rehabilitating non-specific back pain
Sports Injuries: overcoming chronic fatigue syndrome
The psychological and physical challenges of overcoming chronic fatigue syndrome
Knee injuries- the prevention and treatment of cartilage damage
Everything you need to know about meniscus injury
Ankle Injuries - Prevention and Treatment (Muscle Balance, Static dynamic and reactive stabilization phases)
The ankle takes the full weight of the body and this makes it susceptible to injury. When running and jumping the forces that are exerted on the ankle are considerable. The most common ankle problems are sprains and fractures. A sprain is an injury to the ligaments, which may take many months to heal completely. You can also injure other parts of the ankle such as tendons and cartilage.
Ankle Injuries - Prevention and Treatment (Functional Strength phrase)
The ankle takes the full weight of the body and this makes it scecptible to injury. When running and jumping the forces that are exerted on the ankle are considerable. The most common ankle problems are sprains and fractures. A sprain is an injury to the ligaments, which may take many months to heal completely. You can also injure other parts of the ankle such as tendons and cartilage.
Ankle Injuries - Prevention and Treatment (Functional Power and Agility phase)
The ankle takes the full weight of the body and this makes it scecptible to injury. When running and jumping the forces that are exerted on the ankle are considerable. The most common ankle problems are sprains and fractures. A sprain is an injury to the ligaments, which may take many months to heal completely. You can also injure other parts of the ankle such as tendons and cartilage.
Using vibration training to recover from injury
In this video John Shepherd finds out about the benefits of whole-body vibration training as an intra-workout recovery. Spending 30 seconds on the vibration machine, it is claimed, can clear lactate and lactic acid from the exerciser’s muscles, speeding up recovery and therefore allowing for maximum effort on subsequent sets.
Recovering from injury with Rehab Trainer
Rehab Trainer has been designed for personal trainers. As Larsen says, ‘As a personal trainer, you need to be able to keep your clients in a training routine, even if they are injured. If you also have the skills to effectively reduce pain during, or after, training an injured body part, then your client will more likely remain loyal to you for the long term.’
Recovering from injury with rubber tubing
Regular Peak Performance and Sports Injury Bulletin contributor and renowned physiotherapist Ulrik Larsen applies his innovative approach to rehab using rubber tubing to more demanding exercises.
The exercises:
1. Squat
2. Single leg squat
3. Fit-ball wall squat
4. Treadmill running
Piriformis syndrome: the causes, diagnosis and treatment of this common gluteal muscle injury
Piriformis syndrome is an irritation of the sciatic nerve caused by an inflammation of the piriformis muscle.
Achilles tendon injuries: a full guide to causes, symptoms, prevention techniques and treatments
Achilles Tendonitis: treatment and prevention
Back Injuries: functional power and agility phase
Back injuries are very common both in sport and everyday life. Specific pain can generally be classified into acute lower back pain and mild to moderate lower back pain. It is not always possible to make a precise diagnosis of a specific back injury or condition but this should not prevent the pain from being managed or treated.
Back Injuries: functional strength phase
Back injuries are very common both in sport and everyday life. Specific pain can generally be classified into acute lower back pain and mild to moderate lower back pain. It is not always possible to make a precise diagnosis of a specific back injury or condition but this should not prevent the pain from being managed or treated.
Back injuries: static dynamic and reactive stabilization phase
Back injuries are very common both in sport and everyday life. Specific pain can generally be classified into acute lower back pain and mild to moderate lower back pain. It is not always possible to make a precise diagnosis of a specific back injury or condition but this should not prevent the pain from being managed or treated.
Back pain: preventing and treating back injuries
Exercises to strengthen the back following injury
Hip, Groin and Pelvis Injuries - Prevention and Treatment (functional power and agility phase)
Athletes, especially those who take part in dynamic sports (e.g. football, gymnastics, triple jump) will know how frustrating a hip or groin injury can be to shift. Apart from the frustration of re-occurrence if the root cause is not treated, there are a host of hamstrings and lower back injuries that are likely to follow if fundamental changes are not taken.
Hip, Groin and Pelvis Injuries - Prevention and Treatment (functional strength phase)
Athletes, especially those who take part in dynamic sports (e.g. football, gymnastics, triple jump) will know how frustrating a hip or groin injury can be to shift. Apart from the frustration of re-occurrence if the root cause is not treated, there are a host of hamstrings and lower back injuries that are likely to follow if fundamental changes are not taken.
Hip, groin and pelvis injuries: prevention and treatment (static dynamic and reactive stabilization phase)
Athletes, especially those who take part in dynamic sports (e.g. football, gymnastics, triple jump) will know how frustrating a hip or groin injury can be to shift. Apart from the frustration of re-occurrence if the root cause is not treated, there are a host of hamstrings and lower back injuries that are likely to follow if fundamental changes are not taken.
Hip, groin & pelvis injuries: prevention and treatment
Conditioning techniques to treat and prevent upper leg injuries
Thigh injuries - Prevention and Treatment (functional power and agility phase)
A thigh muscle injury is common in all sports but in particularly where kicking is repeatedly practised, like football or rugby. Straining a thigh muscle means tearing one or more of the quadriceps muscle group. The quadriceps are located at the front of the thigh and are responsible for straightening the knee.
Thigh injuries - Prevention and Treatment (functional strength phase)
A thigh muscle injury is common in all sports but in particularly where kicking is repeatedly practised, like football or rugby. Straining a thigh muscle means tearing one or more of the quadriceps muscle group. The quadriceps are located at the front of the thigh and are responsible for straightening the knee.
Thigh injuries - prevention and treatment (static dynamic and reactive stabilization phase)
A thigh muscle injury is common in all sports but in particularly where kicking is repeatedly practised, like football or rugby. Straining a thigh muscle means tearing one or more of the quadriceps muscle group. The quadriceps are located at the front of the thigh and are responsible for straightening the knee.
Sports injuries: preventing and treating thigh pain
Treating and preventing hamstring and quadraceps injuries
Back pain: core strengthening exercises to protect the spine
Targeted core strengthening work can reduce the risk of back pain
Hamstring injuries: treatment and prevention
John Munroe explains how to deal with a hamstring strain
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