Football is one of the most rough sport.Eventhough the players plays with many safety accesories such as helmets,braces,pads, and supports injuries occurs most commonly while playing.The combination of various factors like the speed of the play,physical nature of game,and number of the players makes the football injuries as quite common.
Strains and Sprains are the most probable injuray occuring in football game.These sprains and strains can be treated with many common methods such as ice,rest,elevate and compression.
The next common type of injury is fractures.Fractures accounts to one quarter of the total injuries occuring during football.The fractured bones mostly includes fingers with that.Turf toe is the injury occuring at the big toes’s base.This type of injury is caused due to running or jumping over the hard surfaces.Achilles Tendonitis is the most painful injury at the back of ankle.When this injury is left untreated, then it will lead to Achilles tendon rupture.
The ankle sprain is other injury which most of the football player’s experience.Earlier analysis and treatment to this problem will offer speed recovery and thus avoiding ankle ligament injuries. Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) is the ligament in the knee which will be most commonly injured.It takes several months to get cured. When the meniscus of the knee is injured,then it leads to the cartilage tear.This injury is been termed as torn cartilage.The injury usually caused due to a football tackle,results in a fracture or bone bruise.The diagnosis of this injury is referred to as hip pointer.
An injury which is caused in the head due to a blow is called the Concussions.This injury causes certain level of impairments in the brain functions.Concussions includes any of the following symptoms such as: Short term memory loss problems, Loss of consciousness and confusion.Any compression or stretch at the brachial plexus causes burners or stingers, this is a most common thing in most of the sports especially in football. burners causes pain at the injured arm.
SPINE INJURIES: These injury is a rare, but this occurs at all the levels of football.There are many medical conditions and resources to effectively treat the spine injury.
There are certain steps to be followed in speed recovery of spine injuries.They are:
(1) Strech out properly
(2) Physical therapy
(3) Cross training
ANKLE SPRAIN: Sprain occurs due to any sudden twisting movement in the foot.This ankle sprain not only occurs in football or any sports event,it also occurs in our day-to-day acivities.An awkward step on a uneven surface causes ankle sprain.Ankle sprain is the regular form of orthopedic injuries.This is caused to the ligament inside the ankle.There are about two types of ankle sprain:
(1) INVERSION ANKLE SPRAIN:
This injury is caused whenever the foot is fallen inward or inverted.In this case,the ligaments are streched more.This type of sprain involves only pain at the exterior part of the ankle, no pain pertaining inside the ankle joint.
(2) EVERSION ANKLE SPRAIN:
This injury is caused when the foot is been twisted outwards. This sprain is been causes the inner ligament which is called as Deltoid ligament to get streched away.
