What are sports-specific injuries?

Simply put, it is a type of injury that is strongly bound to the core technical movements of a specific sport and is difficult to occur in ordinary daily activities or other sports scenes. It is completely different from the trauma caused by accidental falls in our daily sports.

People who frequent the training ground must have the impression that veteran players of each sport almost have the same "project imprint": nine out of ten badminton players have rubbed the outside of the elbow joint, which is what everyone often hears about tennis elbow. It is essentially caused by excessive stretching and wear of the forearm extensor muscles when repeatedly smashing the ball and rubbing the ball in front of the net. You usually do not use such a high-frequency wrist force mode when carrying heavy objects, running and jumping, so naturally you will not encounter this problem.； Half of the professional swimming team has suffered from "swimming shoulder", which is caused by repeated friction and compression of the rotator cuff under the acromion during long-term paddling. If you don't maintain paddling training four or five times a week for more than an hour each time, you will basically have no chance of suffering from this problem.

There are now different opinions on the preventability of this type of injury. Many youth training coaches firmly believe that as long as the movements are completely standard and the peripheral muscle strength is well matched, specialized injuries can be 100% avoided. I once coached a 12-year-old badminton team member. At first, he held the racket in a crooked posture and relied on his arms to generate force. After practicing for three months, he complained of elbow pain. Later, he spent more than a month changing his movements and adding strength training for the forearms and shoulders. After practicing for two years, he never had the same problem again.； However, many veteran athletes who have been playing for more than ten years feel that as long as you train for performance and increase intensity all year round, the logic of the event itself is destined to cause some parts to be used repeatedly, and there will be irreversible wear and tear. A provincial team member I knew before retired from the team. The movements of butterfly swimmers who came out are famously standard in the team. There are still slight signs of wear in the rotator cuff during the annual physical examination and MRI. This is because the power generation mode of butterfly strokes naturally cannot avoid the internal rotation friction of the shoulder joint. No matter how long you practice for a long time, there will be some traces.

In fact, in the past few years, everyone has slowly come up with a more pragmatic approach. There is no need to be frightened away from your favorite sports as soon as you hear about special injuries, and don't think that you can do it well just because your movements are standard. When you practice, pay more attention to strengthening the parts of the sports that are prone to injury. If you feel pain, take a break in time and don't force yourself. Most problems can be solved in advance. If it is just an amateur exercise, it is difficult to get the level of strain of a professional athlete.