Injury proof your life

25/09/2016

Muscular injuries can be painful and leave you immobile for days if not treated right. These sports injuries can also sideline you as a player.
How do they happen?
When you end up stretching a certain muscle suddenly, much beyond its level of elasticity, the muscle gets injured. This can occur on a sports field or at home. Usually, when it comes to a relatively minor injury, you don't need a professional trainer or doctor to treat it, you just need to know basic treatments and rehabilitation strategies.
Physiotherapy can help: Vaibhav Daga, consultant sport and musculoskeletal physiotherapist says, "Physiotherapy helps post as well as pre injury." He explains that physiotherapy offers great relief from any kind of muscular pain. The process helps post injury because any individual, for example a sportsperson or an athlete, who has undergone an injury, needs to come back to his normal life and has to perform all normal activities that he has been doing before getting injured. Injury definitely affects the life of a person and has an impact on the activities and exercises he does.
Post injury treatment: With the help of technologically advanced equipment and techniques, physiotherapists try and understand more about the injury and diagnose all disorders related to movement. Daga explains, "Through physiotherapy, we guide the patient to perform some exercises which will offer them relief from the pain or discomfort caused by the injury, thus slowly helping the person to get back to his or her daily routine."
Pre-injury treatment
Physiotherapy can definitely be considered for pre injury as well. Experts say that in medical terms they call it pre-habilitation. Here, they follow a process wherein they screen to see if there is any potential imbalance present in the athlete's body that can be the cause or risk for injury. He adds, "To reduce this potential risk and imbalance, we perform a screening called bio-mechanical imbalance in the body. Going by the findings of this screening we try and retrieve the imbalance with necessary exercise."
The recovery: Physiotherapists say that in most of the cases there is 100 per cent recovery. But the results totally differ from person to person depending on the intensity of the injury. Physiotherapy is a great technique to get rid of pain because no medication is required and also the amount of side-effects caused is majorly less. The use of a lot of manual therapy in the treatment causes no side-effects.
Guidelines to follow: A person who is undergoing physio should understand that it is not an instant process. It takes time and patients need show some amount of patience with the kind of treatment going on.
If your muscles have become weak after an injury, it takes time for them to gain back their strength. Hence, the most important guideline to follow is to be patient and co-operate with the treatment. Daga says, "While undergoing treatment my advice to patients will be to follow all the instructions given by your doctor. Today, there are a lot of ways to perform physio even while you are sitting at home, which is available on the internet. It is always advisable to take the guidance of a professional performing physiotheraphy."
Experts say that every problem is different and only a professional physiotherapist can identify and study the problem thus offering proper relief. One must not rely only on the information and exercises available on the internet, warn experts.
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Hamstring injury: It is a typical injury found in the field of sports and games that involve a great deal of running. It happens mostly when muscles at the back of the thigh are stretched and extended too far. Apart from bringing about muscle tear, it can recur if not treated appropriately. Hamstring injury is for the most part brought about because of poor hip and core control and symptoms incorporate severe torment at the back of the thigh, bruising, wounding and inflammation.

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