Wrestling Injury: Louie Martinez has had the pleasure of being a wrestling coach for approximately 15 years. Through his experience, Coach Martinez understands the importance of chiropractic care for the wrestler. Sports injuries can commonly occur in wrestling, however, Louie Martinez explains how with Dr. Alex Jimenez, it’s only a matter of visiting his clinic to receive the proper treatment to return-to-play. Coach Louie Martinez also describes how Dr. Alex Jimenez helped his sons, whom are also wrestlers, develop their overall potential.
Sports injuries are injuries which occur in sports, exercise or athletic activities. In the United States, there are approximately 30 million teens and kids alone that participate in some type of organized physical activity. About 3 million athletes, about 14 years of age and under, experience sports injuries yearly, which causes loss of time participating in their specific sport, exercise or athletic activities. Prevention helps reduce potential sport injuries. It is important to set up involvement in warm-ups, stretching, and exercises which focus on primary muscle groups commonly utilized in the sport of interest.
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Training doesn�t make us fitter � recovery from training does. So, how do we recover? An easy jog or spin, or a lazy day on the sofa, asks Beate Stindt, chartered physiotherapist at Six Physio.
?Recovery can be either active or passive. Passive recovery is just that; total rest. A passive recovery day should not include any training. On these days you should rest and recover, which means no spring cleaning and no walking around the shops for the whole day.
An active recovery session usually involves your usual sport, be it running, swimming, cycling or yoga, but at an easy to moderate intensity. Active recovery has been likened to a short nap � the aim is to feel better at the end of your workout than you did at the beginning. Training for an event places a huge amount of stress on your body and hard sessions result in the hormone cortisol being released. Cortisol is a natural anti-inflammatory but, left to hang around in the blood for too long, can negatively interfere with muscle regeneration.
Active vs Passive Recovery
One aim of active recovery is to clear the metabolic waste resulting from exercise, as well as providing a higher level of blood flow to muscles in need of nutrients, allowing them to repair themselves.
While there is not yet conclusive evidence showing whether or not this really does result in quicker recovery, if you are going to try it, it�s important that it�s done correctly so as not to contribute to fatigue. Many athletes will use an active recovery session as a technical workout and focus on form and technique, something they might not be able to do during sessions with a higher intensity where technique work can be drowned out.
Some athletes will have a recovery workout in between two hard workouts while others may include a recovery week in their training programme. A general rule of thumb for a recovery week/session would be to reduce the volume of your training by approximately 30 per cent. If you train according to heart rate, make sure you complete your session at less than 60 per cent of your maximum heart rate. If you need a break from all technology, as a general rule you should make sure you can still continue a conversation. You should be able to speak in full sentences and not only the odd word or grunt.
Another way to make sure that you are not working too hard is to make sure you are comfortable breathing through your nose (make sure all nasal passages are clear!).
So which is best? The jury is still out. Like so many things in training, everyone has their own personal preference and it is important to find your own and do it correctly. If you�re going to include active recovery sessions as a part of your training, resign yourself to the fact that you might not get admiring looks from passers by or that you might be overtaken by your elderly neighbor on her bicycle with a fully laden basket. But remember: that�s okay!
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Additional Topics: Chiropractic and Athletic Performance
Although warm-up stretches, exercise and plenty of training activities are practiced on a regular basis to prevent injuries, many athletes frequently experience sports injuries during their specific physical activity and/or sport. Fortunately, chiropractic care can help treat and rehabilitate athletes, in order for them to return to the field as soon as possible. Chiropractic has also been demonstrated to help increase athletic performance.
Focusing too much on playing one favorite sport probably isn’t a good idea for kids under 12, researchers report.
That’s because specializing in a single sport seems to increase a child’s risk of injury, researchers say.
“Young athletes should participate in one competitive sport per season, and take at least three months off (non-consecutive) from competition per year,” said the study’s leader, Dr. Neeru Jayanthi. He’s a physician with Emory Sports Medicine and an associate professor of orthopaedics and family medicine at Emory University in Atlanta.
For the study, Jayanthi’s team assessed the risk of sports-related injuries among nearly 1,200 young athletes. After tracking their training schedules over the course of three years, the investigators found that nearly 40 percent of the athletes suffered an injury during the study period.
The findings also showed that injured athletes began specializing in one sport at an average age younger than 12 years. In addition, nearly two-thirds of these athletes in highly specialized sports sustained a repeat injury.
Athletes who didn’t sustain injuries began to focus on one sport when they were older than 12, on average, according to the report.
“While different for each sport, determining a possible age of specialization, as well as other training factors, may help guide young athletes in reducing risk,” Jayanthi said in an Emory news release.
Young athletes who had sports-related injuries during the study period tended to play more year-round sports, played more organized sports each week and were more specialized in specific sports than those who didn’t have an injury, the researchers found.
The study authors advise young athletes to play more than one sport. In addition, they said, younger children shouldn’t train more hours than their age each week.
The study was published online March 16 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The findings were also presented Thursday at the International Olympic Committee World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport, in Monaco.
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