Sports Medicine

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Sports Trauma

Exercise and sports are excellent lifestyle choices to maintain physical strength and overall good health. However, injuries are common in sports activities, which can be acute or chronic in process. Unlike chronic sports injuries, which develop slowly because of repeated use of muscles and joints, acute or traumatic injuries occur because of accidents. For example,

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Common Swimming Injuries | Sports Medicine Doctor, Bangalore

Swimming is one of the popular sports and physical activities that people of all ages enjoy. You could be a competitive swimmer or someone who just likes hanging out in the pool; however, you must know that in spite of its many health benefits, swimming is not free from risks. Like all physical activities, swimming

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Fear of Re-injury in Athletes

For all athletes, getting injuries is an unfortunate reality that may cause disturbance in their training, performance and overall wellness. While recovery is one of the main concerns, an aspect that is overlooked is fear of injury. It is the fear of getting injured once again; it can significantly affect an athlete's psychological condition significantly,

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Common Shoulder Injuries in Cricket – Causes and Prevention

Cricket is one of the popular sports played across the world. It involves various physicalactivities that put high pressure on the shoulder joint. The intensive throwing of the ball by a bowler, the power required by the fielder to throw the ball, along with frequent movements in batting – all place stress on the player's shoulder.

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Common Sports Injuries in Swimmers

Despite being a low-impact exercise, swimmers are still prone to various forms of injuries in both the upper and lower extremities. Competitive swimmers perform highly repetitive motions and so overuse injuries of the shoulder, back, and knee can occur. The top tips to prevent such injuries could be strictly warming up before swimming exercises to

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Common Sports Injuries in Cricketers

While injuries during a game of cricket is quite unpredictable for any of the players; bowlers and fielders are prone to injury risk when compared to the batters or wicket keepers. This is possibly because they do majority of the repetitive straining motion activities. There are some types of injuries that are most commonly seen

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Runner’s Knee – Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Runner’s knee refers to conditions that cause pain around the patella or kneecap. This could include iliotibial band syndrome, chondromalacia patella, anterior knee pain syndrome and patellofemoral malalignment. These conditions affect women more frequently compared to men. Causes Runner’s knee is typically caused by activities such as running, biking, jumping, playing soccer, etc. that stress

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Meniscal Surgery

Did you know the thigh bone is connected to the shin bone through two cartilage discs known as the menisci? Each meniscus is a C-shaped disc that acts as a shock absorber for the bones and keeps the knees stable. Unfortunately, this cartilage is prone to tears caused by lifting heavy weights, contact sports, kneeling

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Importance of Sports Nutrition

In the athletic population, sports nutrition play a key role along with training. The food that you consume not only help with the nutrition requirements but also help enhance your performance. It not only about the kind of food you eat throughout the day, but also the timings which can have an impact on the

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ROLE OF A SPORTS NUTRITIONIST

A large population today are into sporting activity either recreational or semi-professional. The personal improvement can be achieved through adequate nutrition. In the athletic population an adapted nutritional approach is very important to achieve the sporting goal.   In athletes the nutritional practice is multi-factorial and it depends largely on food availability, habits and culture

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Patellar Instability

Patellar instability is an umbrella term given to a range of injuries that occur when the kneecap or patella is displaced from its original resting place.  It is a common medical issue affecting lot of people (on an average of 7 out of 1 lakh).  However, not all patellar instabilities can be treated equally and

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Upper Crossed Syndrome

When muscle imbalances occur some muscles become inhibited and weak, while others become tight. Such imbalances lead to tissue changes that may result in inappropriate patterns of movement. Symptoms -Chronic neck pain and stiffness -Chronic upper thoracic pain -Constant symptoms -Aggravated by reading, poor posture and by prolonged sitting -Associated with micro-traumatic shoulder injuries Signs

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Neck-Arm Syndrome

Neck arm syndrome includes variety of conditions affecting your neck or upper back that also include some arm symptoms. The most common type of neck arm pain is Neck-Shoulder Pain, which is obviously a relationship between neck and shoulder pain. Neck-arm pain is specific to dysfunctions which refer symptoms down the arm and have the potential

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Psychology and Sports Injuries

“Role of Psychology during Sports injuries” Injury is physical trauma or damage caused to the body by an external force. Injuries in sports are very common and can occur through contact or noncontact mechanisms or even overuse due to high intensity workouts. An injury not only causes pain and distress physically but also causes psychological

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Can Rotator Cuff Injuries heal by itself?

Can Rotator Cuff Injuries Heal by itself? A common question I hear from my patients is – Can my rotator cuff tear be treated without surgery? “As I don’t want to go for surgeries, please help me”, it’s a simple question with a difficult answer. Symptoms of a rotator cuff tear can be managed non-surgically

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Patient with longstanding symptoms

Patient with longstanding symptoms:
Be sure the diagnosis is correct:
List of some conditions that are common in sports was not what they appeared at first:
Obvious diagnosis                         True diagnosis
1. Migraine headache                    upper cervical zygapophyseal joint hypomobility
2. Rotator cuff tendinopathy        GH instability in younger athlete and AC joint OA in older athlete
5. Tennis elbow                               Cervical disk abnormality

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Common psychological concerns faced by Sports persons

• I am not Mentally Tough
• I get really tensed before my race/event/match/game
• I suffer from slumps, choking, psych-outs, runaway emotions, negativity or a lack of confidence during my race/event/match/game
• My Performance is stagnant

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Acute Injury Management

Soft tissue injuries are a common occurrence when exercising, playing sport and during recreational activities. These injuries can be the result of a sudden unexpected or uncontrolled event like stepping onto uneven ground and rolling over your ankle. They could also occur from a sudden increase in your training volume where the tissues become overloaded.