Sports injuries are sustained while playing indoor or outdoor games. Such injuries can occur due to improper warming up or stretching before play, inadequate training, and faulty playing technique and in play accidents. Most common injuries sustained are muscle cramps, ligaments sprains or tears, joint dislocations and fractures. Orthoexcellence sports injury team understands such injuries and offer treatment and prevention of such injuries. We provide treatment and rehab programme for specific injuries and tailor made for each game.

The recommended initial treatment is as follows

• Rest to the injured part
• Icing of the part
• Compression bandage is applied to lessen pain
• Elevation is given to prevent and reduce swelling of the part

Sports injuries are preventable. At Orthoexcellence, physiotherapy and rehab experts help the injured player to regain power and strength after injuries to resume the sport. Following measures should be taken by all the sports persons to avoid sports injuries:-

• A specific exercise training programme should be strictly followed to gradually gain maximum muscle strength needed for particular game.
• An adequate stretching and warm up protocol should be followed before going to the gameplay and similarly a cool down time should also be given to the body.
• An exercise programme should be such that you gradually gain strength and never do a quick and overdose of exercise to prevent fatigue.
• In addition to the game specific exercise protocol, general body build, core body exercises, should also the part of exercise programme.
• Always wear protective gears specific for each game to protect the vulnerable parts of body like, padded gloves, helmets, elbow, wrist and knee guards, thigh , shin , scrotal and chest guards etc.
• Every player should eat a healthy diet for the muscles and bone growth and never go to the ground after taking a full meal.
• An adequate rest should be given to the injured part to recover and a post injury rehab programme should be followed till you gain the pre-injury level of muscle strength before returning to the field.
• Take adequate rest before and after playing each game so that body is fully ready to play again with same strength
• Strictly follow the rules laid down for specific game.
• Yoga and meditation should be part of every sports training programme which helps to relax body, reduce mental stress of game, help focus on performance and helps build confidence.

• Anterior cruciate Ligament tears
• Posterior cruciate Ligament tears
• Meniscal tears
• Cartilage damage
• MCL and LCL tears
• Rotator cuff tears
• Shoulder dislocations
• Biceps tendon tears
• SLAP injuries
• Ankle sprains