Question

Choose a specific sports injury and locate a current (within the past 5 years) scientific or news item which discusses a certain aspect of that injury, such as treatment, prevention strategies, risk factors, trends in injury rates, etc.  Provide a summary of the article as well as your perspective (for example, if you are reviewing an article about a prevention strategy, how practical do you think the strategy in the article would be, compared to other options available.)

Pubmed is an excellent resource for health-related articles. Other options include publications such as the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, etc.

Answer 1

specific sports injury

MUSCLE INJURIES

skeletal muscle injuries play great part in sports medice because it's a common injuries occurs in most of the sports like football, hockey, cricket,volleyball etc there will be 10% to 50% of muscle injuries in sports

types ,there will acute and chronic type

acute: it will be single traumatic event and causes macrotruma to the muscle and it will be noticeable

chronic: it will be in long period of time as a micro trauma to the muscle ,and it will not be noticeable, hard to diagnose

And muscle strains,muscle cramps and muscle soreness includes in the muscle injuries

These muscle strain will be most commonly in the sports because of the following reasons

They are, without doing warm up, previous injuries happened to the player, muscle imbalance, spinal dysfunction, excessive muscle tightness etc.

TREATMENT in acute stage

treatment for the muscle injuries is the primary principle of RICE - ( rest, ice, compression, elevation )

Mostly these principle is quite enough for the acute stage of the muscle injuries, these improve the injury area and then there will be isometric to isotonic exercise without pain and followed by the isokinetic exercise

chronic stage

there will be some surgical intervention for the following such as,  large intramuscular hametoma ,scar adhesion formation it leads to pain and restrictions in movements for more than 5 months.

common muscle injuries

Hamstrings strain,groin strain, quadriceps strain, rotator cuff tears, Achilles rapture etc

prevetion

For sports player first they need focus on flexibilty of mucles, so before playing they have to street and warming up is must and and after the games they need to warm down there body

And need to find some proper skills it prevent from injuries

Risk factors, severe pain and tenderness

diagnosis, through MRI, x-ray ,CT scan