Most common injuries in the Olympics

• April 25, 2024

The High performance athletes they want to participate and win medals for their country; however, and with a view to Olympic fair , their ambitions can put their health at risk with some of the most common injuries to which they are exposed, according to the Balearic Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology (IBOT).

There are several causes that cause or are factors of an injury, such is the case of stress generated by sports practice, which has caused a greater likelihood that athletes have acute and chronic injuries.

In Athens alone, they reported that sports of contact and resistance are characterized by a predominance of soft tissue injuries, mainly Sprains, tears, contusions and tendonitis , according to a study by the Medical Journal of the University of Antioquia (Colombia).

The same in Beijing, in which the main injuries were in sports such as football (26%), basketball (18%), cycling (11%), field and track sports (11%) and swimming (10%).

In this sense, injuries in the lower limbs predominate, where 67% of the total presented, while in the upper ones, 28%. Injuries to the spine were the least frequent (3%).

80% of the injuries suffered during the practice of sport They compromise the soft tissues, and the most frequently injured areas were the knee, ankle and shoulder.

Therefore, it is important that those who practice sport in a professional manner, as well as those amateur athletes, follow the recommendations made by the medicine specialists of the sport , traumatologists and physiotherapies, to have a performance according to their abilities and physical state.

At sport , as in almost everything, there is use and abuse. A moderate and controlled dose of exercise It is always a benefit for our body, but the athletic excesses of some athletes can cause very serious injuries, mainly among those who prepare for the long road to the Olympics.

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