Fourth Post: common injuries, treatment, and recovery

Common injuries treatment, and Recovery

     Volleyball is a sport that requires a lot of running, jumping, and diving. Therefore you are bound to have one at least one or two injuries while playing the sport. The two most common injuries are acute and overused. "An acute injury is one cause by a single event usually a sprain or an ankle roll." (p.59) and overused injury is an injury cause over a period of time for example blocking shots every game requires jumping which in the long run could damage you back. (p.60). The most common injury is an ankle injury is makes up two thirds of the injuries made from volleyball. This can be caused in many different ways. Another common injury is fingers or hands this usually comes from blocking.  It is important that if an injury like this is to occur you do the correct treatment.
     Treatment is usually very simple if you remember P.R.I.C.E. this stands for Protection, Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. I was was playing volleyball and during the game i hurt my finger very badly. It was hard to bend without pain yet it didn't feel broken. My coach made me sit out the rest of the third set as my mom went to look for ice unfortunately they couldn't find any. As soon as i got home i iced my finger after a while the pain was gone however the finger was purple. My mom told me to tape my fingers together. I used medical tape and taped them not to tight nor loose. Taping the fingers together made it so i couldn't move the muscle that was hurt after two days or so the color went away and my finger returned to normal. One thing i learned was to always bring tape or wrap to any sporting event.

      "Prevention is always better than a cure" (p.69) of course its good to strengthen your weak areas but did you know it is also bad to over exercise or practice. One way to help avoid injuries is to train your body but training yourself in small time periods. If you want to practice jumping first stretch an then practicing jumping for twenty minutes twice a week. That way you wont hurt your back and you will give it some rest. I have scoliosis which is where my back curves instead of being straight. These are the types of injuries you want to avoid. Mine is not that bad now but chances are it will get worse, example is the bottom picture. 

How many years do you think it takes the average player to realize the side effects of back injuries?