Sports injuries

Sports injuries are a result of playing sports. Some sports injuries are related to the repetitive action associated with sports, or the overuse of a certain muscle. These sorts of sports injuries include tennis elbow or runner's knee. Another type of sports injury is the result of an accident or hit on the field of play. Some sports injuries happen because the body is pushed to places or forced into angles bodies were never meant to go into.

Some sports have common sports injuries, besides the repetitive action sports injuries like tennis elbow. Common sports injuries for football players, for example, are concussions, sprained muscles, busted knees, and hamstring pulls. There are several common treatments for sports injuries. The first most common treatment for a sports injury is prevention with the use of various types of protection-helmets, padding, shin guards, jock straps, mouth guards, and the like. The second most common treatment for a sports injury is to simply rest. Some players are removed from a game for short periods, others must take an extended hiatus from the season, depending on how serious the injury is.

Sports medicine is a popular and well-populated specialty field in medicine, because sports injuries and athletes tend to be sufficiently different from the sorts of injuries people suffer in the course of their regular lives.

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