7 Common Sports Injuries – Know the Causes & Treatment

To stay fit, follow healthy lifestyle, and practice a particular exercise regime is always preferable for individuals. However, anything in excess, practiced without an expert trainer, and accidental misfortune can lead to injuries ranging from simple to grave.

Generally trauma, fractures, sports injuries, is a matter of concerns; as they can cause devastation of your normal life. So, undoubtedly exercise or physical activities are good for you, but be careful of injury while playing sports or practicing exercise.

Some common causes of Sports Injuries:

• Accidents & Carelessness
  
• Poor training schedule or practice
  
• Improper gear
  
• Due to over-weight, body shape, & haste
  
• Excessive physical exhaustion (not following a balanced regime)
  
• Without warming up for physical activities
  
• Over stretching or injuries due to faulty method
  
• Collision or hit
  
• Long time exposure to extreme physical workout or sports
  
• Little rest and irrational involvement in activities

Therefore, splinting and casting sometimes become choice of treatment, making out for the injuries. Let’s take a sneak peek into common sports injuries and fatal cases.

7 Common Sports Injuries:

• Ankle Sprain
  
• Groin Pull
  
• Hamstring Strain
  
• Shin Splints
  
• Knee Injury: ACL Tear
  
• Knee injury: Patellofemoral Syndrome
  
• Tennis Elbow

These are seven sports injuries, which can make a sportsman out of action for months. For ordinary people who are not sportsman, can impact their normal lifestyle, day to day work, and professional as well as personal life. Sports injuries like ligament tear, tennis elbow Patellofemoral syndrome can have devastating affect over your career, emotional well-being, physical stress, and depression. Surgeries to include closed reductions, pinning’s, external and internal fixation does solve such complications of injuries, and give hope for reclaiming quality life.
Treatment for Sports Injuries at Corpus Christi Joint and Bone Orthopedics:

• PRICE therapy, its common therapy for mild sprains, strains, pain management, and minor injuries. PRICE stands for “protection, rest, ice, compression, and elevation”.
  
  In this process “the injured area is protected by a support, maximum rest is advised, physical activities are restricted, ice pack is applied for instigating ice burn to minimize swelling or any other pain, compression is used to limit the swelling or injury, and at last elevation hints at keeping the injured body part placed above head.
  
  However, PRICE therapy should be recommended by a medical professional, as every injury is not treatable or manageable through PRICE.
  
• Pain killer is administered by doctor to control the intense and unbearable pain.
  
• Immobilization, like slings, splinting and casting is used for giving support and less movement of injured arms, shoulders, wrists and legs while you heal.
  
• Physiotherapy, process like “massage, exercises, therapies to improve motion, and strengthen of muscles aims at returning back of normal body function.
  
• Corticosteroid injections can also be administered for dealing with severe pain management.
  
• Surgery and procedures like internal fixation, external pinning’s, reductions, plates, rods, realignment, and repairing of torn ligaments are last retort.

At the end, only the best medication, therapy, advice, and surgery will see you come back to normal life. The post-surgery advice from “Corpus Christi Joint and Bone Orthopedics” will be of much help in recovering fast.

How to counteract Arthritis – Awareness Campaign to Defeat & Conquer

Arthritis is a medical terminology for inflammation of joints. The critical mission is to aware people about the arthritis; as there are lots of misconceptions, which are finding its roots amid people.

Thus, arthritis is becoming more troublesome, gruesome, and painful for individuals. In U.S “arthritis” is affecting more people in comparison to any other diseases. The reasons are numerous, but what is startling is people are more scared, ignored, and reluctant about their health.

Today, Corpus Christi Joint and Bone Orthopedic have launched its mass awareness campaign against “Arthritis”. This blog is our online effort to reach out to maximum people for ascertaining right information is being conveyed for their health.

Causes of Arthritis:

1. Obesity is one major cause of arthritis
2. Medications or drugs which affects the bone density & brings weakness
3. Hard physical labor
4. Accidents and injuries
5. Surgeries & bed ridden
6. Less exposure to sun-rays
7. Abnormal metabolism
8. Hereditary disease like osteoarthritis
9. Infections like Lyme disease leading to arthritis
10. Over-active immune system leading to auto-immune attack
11. Lifestyle and diet secondarily

Thus, saving near and dear ones from arthritis is possible with awareness, right lifestyle, and instant medical assistance.

Know the Arthritis:

• Americans are at receiving end when it comes to arthritis; as 21 Million native Americans are suffering from osteoarthritis
• The auto-immune attack like rheumatoid arthritis attacks 2.1 Million Americans approximately
• There are approximately 200 types of arthritis, which are basically rheumatic diseases. These 200 types of conditions affect joints primarily
• Rheumatic diseases are caused due to tissue damages, osteoporosis, and tissue diseases
• Lupus & rheumatoid arthritis can affect multiple organs. It shows numerous symptoms in body and is very painful
• 52.5 Million adults from different age groups and walks of life are diagnosed with different types of arthritis
• If arthritis are not treated it can make a person physically impair to perform routine work in life
• Physical activity, exercise under expert trainer, yoga, & physiotherapy has shown positive results to counter pain, body functionality, joint mobility, and mental well-being
• Arthritis can induce heart risks or disease in old age people

How to counteract arthritis?
Arthritis care and Joint Replacement including hip, knee and shoulder replacements is one way to counteract arthritis.

Treatment for arthritis generally include “ pain management, improving joint mobility, preventing further joint damages, and enhance quality of life.

The second possible way to counteract arthritis is to treat in a medical fusion of “medications, physical therapies and patient awareness.”

Third and most advanced way is arthroscopy for knee, shoulder, and ankle.

Types of Arthritis:
Generally, this disease is inflammation of joints; rheumatic disease induced, and joint depletion. It’s assumed to be of 200 different types; but is classified in 7 primary groups of arthritis.

• Inflammatory arthritis is most common in human
• Degenerative or mechanical arthritis
• Soft tissue musculoskeletal pain
• Back pain
• Connective tissue disease
• Infectious arthritis
• Metabolic arthritis

In our next campaign for awareness against arthritis we will discuss the symptoms and other risks factor for determining arthritis.

Medical Synopsis about Arthritis – Page from a Doctor’s Diary

World is growing at a fast pace, and modernization is making our life simpler. But with simple lifestyle, we are going away from hard work and daily exercises. Thus, we are inviting obesity, unhealthy lifestyle, cholesterol, muscle spasm, bone depletion, and joint pain.
Undoubtedly, 21st century is brightest in terms of development of human civilization; but no age or era or century is ever cursed like 21st century when it comes to diseases. Be it chronic or acute; be it epidemic or pandemic; be it a slow death or catastrophic – this century have it all.
Today developed nation like U.S; European Union, and Indian subcontinent is facing the threat of diseases like “arthritis, diabetes, obesity, heart risk, and environmental diseases”.
In United States of America pain in hips, knees, and shoulders are impacting people more than heart diseases. The more startling fact is arthritis affects more people in U.S then diabetes and cancer together.

The Million dollar question is…
What is Arthritis?

1. Arthritis is an inflammatory disease; and causes inflammation in one joint or multiple joints.
2. Arthritis is commonly affected disease in old age; which develops slowly over years.
3. There are 100 different types of medically recognized arthritis, which affects human civilizations.
4. The causes of different arthritis differ from each other; and the procedure of treating pain due to different arthritis is also different in every cases.
5. The most commonly affecting arthritis in human are “Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis”. They are also known as (OA) and (RA) in medical terminology.
6. The medical field believes arthritis affects human in late age. The disease can trouble us after 65 years of age. The onset of arthritis is generally considered to be slow process.
7. However, arthritis is observed in children, teen, and adults between 25 years to 40 years. So, it can also attack us suddenly in young age.
8. The major sufferer of arthritis is women; and men are less likely to suffer in comparison to women.
9. People with over-weight or obesity related diseases can develop arthritis over the period of time.

What is the procedure to administer treatments of Arthritis?

• Treatment of arthritis including injections (cortisone and Hyalgan / Synvisc)
• Treatments are customized, administered after evaluating health risks, and benefits of treatments are monitored
• Physiotherapy is complimentary to treat arthritis along with injections, surgeries, and other necessary medications
• The treatment is decided after evaluating the type of arthritis, severity of pain, and impact of arthritis in our joints (the impact of inflammation)
• The main aim of arthritis treatment is to achieve retreat of pain, symptoms of relief, improvement of joint functionality, and absence recurring sooner

Advice & Conclusion:

• Corpus Christi Bone & Joint Orthopedicsmotto is to educate people about arthritis, share information related to the disease, and eradicate the misconceptions related to the disease arthritis
• Corpus Christi Bone & Joint Orthopedics is known for their PRP injections, surgeries including arthroscopies and joint replacement for hips, knees and shoulders. So, they are a reputed organization performing social responsibility to defeat arthritis

Tip of the Day:

• Maintain your body weight and focus on healthy diet to keep arthritis at bay.