Sports Injuries
The pictures of these injuries freak me out
Injuries to the knee
Ways to avoid:
- Maintain your weight. ...
- Wear sensible shoes with a good fit. ...
- Warm up. ...
- Do low-impact exercise. ...
- Swim or walk. ...
- Weight train. ...
- Don't decrease your activity. ...
- Don't suddenly change the intensity of your exercise.
Injuries to the shins (shin splints)
Increase stride rate to around 180 steps for minute
Minimize the number of hard workouts
Run almost exclusively on soft trails, tracks, or treadmills.
Get neutral shoes, not training shoes
Do shin stretches after every run
Take calcium supplements
Most common sports injuries
- Ankle sprain
- Groin pull
- Hamstring strain
- Shin splints
- Knee injury: ACL tear
- Knee injury: Patellofemoral syndrome — injury resulting from the repetitive movement of your kneecap against your thigh bone
- Tennis elbow (epicondylitis)