CONDITION: Sports Injuries -- General

DESCRIPTION:
Ten million or more sports injuries are treated in the United States each year. Many musculoskeletal injuries can benefit from the application of sports medicine, even though they may have different causes. The resulting injuries in many cases are similar even though the activity that created them is different. Carrying a suitcase, for instance, can cause tennis elbow as well as turning a screw, or opening a sticky door. Similarly, an injury such as runner's knee is sometimes the result of excessive inward rolling of the foot (pronation) while walking.

How do sports injuries develop?
There are many reasons sports injuries occur, including faulty training methods, imbalanced stress on certain parts of the body that results from structural abnormalities, and weakness of the tendons, muscles and ligaments. Chronic wear and tear, which results from a repetitive motion stressing susceptible tissue leads to many of these injuries. Pain occurs when a small number of muscle or tendon fibers start to tear. Powerful pressure, greater than the inherent strength of the muscles, tendons and ligaments will often tear them. After a sprain, joints are more prone to injury, especially when the muscles and ligaments that support them are weak. Faulty training methods, however, is the most common cause of muscle and joint injuries. The individual often doesn't allow for an adequate post-workout recovery time or continues to exercise or play the sport even when pain has developed.

What are some common sports injuries?

• Patellar tendonitis (Jumper's Knee)
  
• Osgood-Schlatter's Disease
  
• Shoulder dislocation
  
• Iliotibial band syndrome
  
• Torn meniscus
  
• Whiplash
  
• Ischial tuberosity pain
  
• Post-fracture pain
  
• Pubic symphysis injury

Conventional medical treatments may help relieve the symptoms of sports injuries, but they do not address the root of the problem. By strengthening structural weaknesses in the body, as natural medicine treatments like Prolotherapy do, pain associated with sports injuries may be alleviated permanently.

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