image by:

HWN Suggests

What Are Overuse Injuries and How Can You Avoid Them

It can happen to anyone- overuse injuries just when you’re getting into the groove of working out. Any type of injury is painful, but the worst part about overuse injuries is that they typically can be prevented. These injuries come from repetitive trauma to the body through sport or exercise. In addition to stress fractures, exercisers also might experience patellar tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, shin splints, and IT band syndrome (ITBS). Athletes are up against more than just overuse injuries, unfortunately. They also face risk of acute injury and chronic injury as well. Therefore, as much as possible, fitness professionals should take the necessary injury prevention measures to avoid damage…

read full article

Articles of Interest

A Warning on Overuse Injuries for Youths

Just as warming weather brings millions of young athletes back onto sports fields, a major athletics association has renewed this warning: Some school-age competitors who are inadequately prepared, or improperly coached, continue to develop serious overuse injuries.

Guidelines for Young Athletes to Reduce Injuries

Children are dedicating themselves to a single sport too early and spending too much time playing it, say doctors who are seeing more children coming in with overuse injuries. Playing multiple sports leads to fewer overuse injuries, lower burnout rates and better overall athletes, experts say.

Overuse injuries in sport: a comprehensive overview

The aim of the present article is to investigate the physiopathology, clinical presentation, diagnostic tools, and management of the most common overuse sport injuries.

The Best Way for Teens to Recover From Overuse Injuries

Focus on a single sport and heavy practice can cause injury; work with athletic trainers helps with prevention and recovery.

The epidemic that’s ruining youth sports

But for every teen athlete who takes a break, there are hundreds who don’t heed doctors’ warnings and continue to overburden their growing bodies. Eventually, many will contribute to the epidemic of overuse injuries — which are on the rise, according to several studies and orthopedic doctors — now sullying youth sports.

Tips to Avoid Overuse Injuries

The fear of overuse injuries should not prevent you from exercising. Done sensibly, exercise will add many happy and healthy years to your life. Here are some commonsense ways you can avoid overuse injuries...

Resources

6 common overuse running injuries and how to fix them

Even with proper preventative measures, many runners still succumb to overuse running injuries -- like the six most common...

Sports Injury Bulletin

Overuse injuries occur as a result of repetitive trauma (microtrauma) as opposed to acute injuries from a single trauma (macrotrauma)