Sports-related muscle injuries

The essential muscles for sports

muscles are distributed throughout the body as part of the musculoskeletal system. Without them, the bones would not be able to hold on or establish movements to move us. In this sense, they are fundamental elements to be able to practice exercise.

When you ask the muscle to do its job, you put pressure on it. The injury comes at the moment when more is asked of him than he can offer, so the greater the demand, the greater the degree of injury.

Types of muscle injuries

The bones are attached to the muscles through tendons that allow the muscle and the bones to move synchronously. A muscle injury can be located in the tendon area or in the muscle itself.

In general, the involvement is usually at the level of the fibers (fibrillar injury), which can break (fibrillar or muscle rupture) or be injured without breaking (sprain). In addition, a millimeter break is not the same, at the treatment or recovery level, as a centimeter break. The larger the size, the worse.

Injury according to the sport practiced

muscle injuries vary greatly depending on each sport, exercise or discipline. In those sports where the lower extremities are usually used, muscle injuries are confined to this area. They can be overuse injuries (characteristic of gymnastics) or trauma (typical of football where, in addition to the very demand of the sport, you can receive a blow that can injure).

Warm up before and after

On many occasions we start practicing a sport without having done a previous one or we stop without stretching our muscles. This bad practice generates many injuries that would be avoided by spending a few minutes stretching the muscles, both before and after doing physical activity.

Structured training

A structured one is one that does not always load the same muscle groups and gives them the rest they deserve. This type of training prevents future injuries. In addition, if a correct heating is applied, the fiber at the time of the start of the activity already has a certain elasticity so it will not be so easy for it to be damaged. In this sense, not getting injured is not just a fortuitous matter but there are ways to avoid it and prevention is the best way.