Understanding Sports Injuries
If you’ve ever sprained your ankle playing pickleball or injured your knee running a 5K, you’ve had a sports injury. Sports injuries are painful, disruptive, and also incredibly common for active individuals.
Essentially, sports injuries are physical injuries that occur during athletic activities or exercise. They usually result from overuse, improper technique, accidents, or collisions and can affect anyone from professional athletes to weekend warriors.
Certain sports, especially those involving high impact, repetitive motion, or sudden changes in direction, increase the likelihood of injury. Some common types of sports injuries include:
- Sprains
- Strains
- Fractures
- Dislocations
- Tendon injuries
- Ligament injuries