1) Basketball is a high-risk sport for injuries due to the lack of protective equipment and constant pounding on the body.
2) Common basketball injuries include ankle sprains, knee injuries, and Achilles tendonitis which are often caused by rapid changes in direction or incorrect landings.
3) RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation) is the standard treatment for many basketball injuries in the initial 48 hours to reduce pain and swelling.
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John Wright
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John Wright
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John Wright
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John Wright
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John Wright
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John Wright
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John WrightAcute Injuries caused by hard hit during game. Contusion- bruise that can cause swelling or bleeding in muscle or tissue. Abrasion is a scrape. Laceration is a cut requiring stitches. A sprain is a stretch or tear of a ligament.
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John WrightThe same injury occurring to a specific part of your body causes stress and can hurt that part of the bodies chances of recovering completely.
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John WrightBasketball contains a lot of running and jumping which demands a lot from your feet and ankles. Things such as leaping for a rebound or making quick cuts can cause uncertain landings. Also playing on outdoor courts causes knee stress.
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John Wright
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John Wright
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John WrightPoor fitting shoes can also lead to bruising of your heel where the achilles tendon attaches the back of the heel to the muscles of the calf of the leg.
Sports Injuries: How to prevent, Diagnose, & treat Basketball. By John WrightBasketball puts a lot of stress on your knees. Hard court surfaces increase the hard jamming of the knee.
http://www.arthroscopy.com/sp05001.htm The knee is essentially made up of four bones. The femur, which is the large bone in your thigh, attaches by ligaments and a capsule to your tibia. Just below and next to the tibia is the fibula, which runs parallel to the tibia. The patella, or what we call the knee cap, rides on the knee joint as the knee bends.
(http://www.arthroscopy.com/sp05001.htm) When the knee moves, it does not just bend and straighten, or, as it is medically termed, flex and extend. There is also a slight rotational component in this motion. This component was recognized only within the last 50 years, which may be part of the reason people have so many unknown injuries. The knee muscles which go across the knee joint are the quadriceps and the hamstrings. The quadriceps muscles are on the front of the knee, and the hamstrings are on the back of the knee. The ligaments are equally important in the knee joint because they hold the joint together. You may have heard of people who have had ligament tears. Problems with ligaments are common.
(http://www.arthroscopy.com/sp05001.htm) The knee joint also has a structure made of cartilage, which is called the meniscus or meniscal cartilage. The meniscus is a C-shaped piece of tissue which fits into the joint between the tibia and the femur. It helps to protect the joint and allows the bones to slide freely on each other. There is also a bursa around the knee joint. A bursa is a little fluid sac that helps the muscles and tendons slide freely as the knee moves.
(http://www.arthroscopy.com/sp05001.htm) There are two cruciate ligaments located in the center of the knee joint. The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) are the major stabilizing ligaments of the knee. In figure 4, on the lateral view, the posterior cruciate ligament prevents the femur from sliding forward on the tibia (or the tibia from sliding backwards on the femur). In the medial view, the anterior cruciate ligament prevents the femur from sliding backwards on the tibia (or the tibia sliding forwards on the femur). Most importantly, both of these ligaments stabilize the knee in a rotational fashion. Thus, if one of these ligaments is significantly damaged, the knee will be unstable when planting the foot of the injured extremity and pivoting, causing the knee to buckle and give way.
Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation is one of the easiest ways to rehabilitate an injury.
http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/sprainsstrains/a/sprain_4.htm Rest:The first 24-48 hours after the injury is considered a critical treatment period and activities need to be curtailed. Gradually use the injured extremity as much as tolerated, by try to avoid any activities that cause pain. Often using a splint, sling, or crutches is necessary to adequately rest the injured body part.
http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/sprainsstrains/a/sprain_4.htmThe ice pack can be a bag of frozen vegetables (peas or corn), allowing you to be able to re-use the bag. Another popular treatment method is to fill paper cups with water then freeze the cup. Use the frozen cube like an ice cream cone, peeling away paper as the ice melts. Do NOT ice a sprain or strain for more than 20 minutes at a time!! You will not be helping heal the injury any faster, and you can cause damage to the tissues!
http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/sprainsstrains/a/sprain_4.htmUsing an Ace bandage, wrap the area overlapping the elastic wrap by one-half of the width of the wrap. The wrap should be snug, but not cutting off circulation to the extremity. So, if your fingers or toes become cold, blue, or tingle, re-wrap!
http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/sprainsstrains/a/sprain_4.htmThe affected part should be elevated so it is 12 inches above the heart, to help reduce swelling.