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SPORTS INJURIES PART 2
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In general structural anatomy of the injured region is fairly complex. However, in essence, it comes down to the following. Every two bones in our body are connected by ligaments. The movement is enabled by a contraction of muscles. Muscles are attached to the bones by tendons , whiles as fascia surrounds and separates muscles.
Sprain and strain are traumas that mainly responsible for frequent sports injuries like shoulder, elbow, wrist, lower back, knee, ankle, etc.
Strain means overload. For example, because of the accumulation of a strain from a repeated motion of typing, many people develop "carpal tunnel ." Actually what happens is that the massive repeated motion that these people are performing demands much more blood supply than there are actually available. In such a case, the gradual repeated overload of muscles and tendons, doesn't manifest itself in pain immediately. Rather, tension accumulates gradually when the micro circulation is disturbed to the point when all the pathological developments start such as myositis, tendinitis, etc.
The other source of strain on muscles and tendons could be heavy lifting. In this case a person can overload muscles during lifting of heavy items, which means that the sudden load on muscles and tendons was greater than the tendons and muscles could carry. Such overloads can cause an immediate strain on partial or total tears of tendons and/or muscles and as a result this person can end up with a painful inflammatory condition such as myositis, tendinitis, etc. The suffix "itis" stands for inflammation.
Technically sprain means to wrench or twist ligaments beyond the physiological limit of joint movement. A ligament can stretch to a certain degree and then return to its original non-stretched state. If we will let our hand drop then it will bend to a certain angle. This bend represents the wrist's anatomical movement. If we will give it a little pressure, the bend will increase somewhat and we will feel a sensation of pain, which will make us understand that we reached a physiological limit to movement. Physiological movement also means that ligaments are stretched. After, this stretch to a certain ligament will return to its original non-stretched state. However, if we apply lots of pressure and will hyper extend or hyper flex the wrist, shoulder, knee, elbow or hip, then this pressure will exceed the physiological elasticity of the ligament and it will be sprained -- condition at which ligament will be traumatized and often will even sustain a partial or complete tear. As a result of this trauma ligaments as well as bursa and capsule of the joint will become inflamed.
In case of sports related injuries usually these two conditions happens concurrently. Athletes often under force over flex or over extend different regions that lead to a sprain/strain type of injuries. The main reasons for sprain-strain traumas are biomechanical disbalance, higher resting muscular tonus, insufficiency of neuro-muscular assembly work, lack of proper pre-event warm up and more. The sprain-strain injury could happen for instance when athlete jumps, sprints, suddenly rotates or twists his/her body.
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