COMMON SPORT INJURIES AND TREATMENTS

Playing sport is one of the good habits for maintaining enduring health. However, during playing, vigorous exercise will not avoid negligence causing injuries to the body. ​
 
Let's refer to several common sport injuries and treatments!
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1. Strain: signs include swelling, pain, soreness and difficult mobility in the area of muscle strain.​
2. Sprain: frequently occurs at the ankle, manifestation of bruised swelling, hematoma at the area of damaged ligament, you may feel pain, discomfort when pressing on it. ​
3. Knee injuries: ​
During playing sport, you may suffer from knee joint injuries such as: ​

• Anterior crucial ligament tear. ​
• Medial collateral ligament tear. ​

The symptoms of these two injuries are similar, patient will feel painful and swelling at knee joint, also hear crepitus after injury, difficult mobility, knee instability, amyotrophia… ​

4. Shoulder and arm injuries: ​

• Shoulder arthritis: ​The shoulders are the most commonly injured joints because the range of motion is too wide, with numerous muscles and tendons. Manifestation of scapular swelling and pain due to carry overload or repeated throwing and pushing movements.  
• Rotator cuff tendinitis: ​Symptoms usually occur gradually, patients have symptoms of pain in the shoulder area, which can radiate to the neck and the arms, it is impossible or significant painful to perform hand raise.​

 
► How to treat sport injuries: ​

Depending on the degree of severity, nature of the traumatic area, it can be treated with various methods: ​

• Massage
• Physiotherapy
• Surgical therapy: usually applied with severe internal injuries such as anterior crucial ligament tear, medial collateral ligament tear

Sport injuries will cause pain and swelling which are more serere if not treated promptly. Therefore, when suffering these injuries, you should immediately go to a medical facility or hospital to be examined and treated by specialists appropriately.
 
At the Orthopaedics and Traumatology, American International Hospital (AIH), during consultation and treatment, doctors will apply the latest therapies, techniques and protocols following American standards. What is more important, the Orthopedists cooperate with Physiotherapists in order to design separate care plan and functional rehabilitation exercises for individual patients basing on patient assessment completed by several factors: disease severity, occupation, sporting habits, other patient conditions, the best time to exercise in line with patient schedule.

Patients also receive numerous methods of pain management, state-of -the- art medical devices and perfect treatment environment in AIH facilitating patient participation, shorten recovery period and return to normal motion early.