Sports injuries and everyday hurts

The most frequent types of sports injuries are:

• sprains (injuries to ligaments)

• strains (injuries to muscles)

• stress fractures (injuries to bones).

What Are the Signs & Symptoms of an Ankle Sprain?

• pain

• soreness

• swelling

• trouble bearing weight or walking on the ankle

• bruising

How Are Ankle Sprains Treated?

• protecting the ankle by taping, wearing a lace-up ankle brace, or ankle splint

• rest 10–14 days to prevent reinjury and limit swelling.

• ice wrapped in a towel placed on the area for about 20 minutes every 1–2 hours

• raising the injured area

• before returning to activity, strengthening exercises

• Football

• Soccer

• Baseball

• Tennis

• Golf

Sports in Question

occurs when there is a direct force applied to the outside of the knee, pushing the knee inward

MCL sprain

​usually take place when an athlete twists or turns their upper leg while their foot is planted and their knee is bent

meniscus tear

running at high speed, sudden stop to change direction. Hear a "pop" followed by pain/swelling

ACL tear

​lateral epicondylitis

Tennis elbow

medial epicondylitis

Golfer's elbow

​Both: repetitive motions of the wrist and arm

It usually happens over time from wear and tear and repeating the same arm motion over and over.

Rotator Cuff Tears

​a condition that causes pain and swelling below the knee joint, where the patellar tendon attaches to the top of the shinbone (tibia), a spot called the tibial tuberosity. more often found in children (soccer)

Osgood-Schlatter disease

​fall on an outstretched hand

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