Sports injuries

Injury is an external event that affects the organism suddenly or for a relatively short time and damages it.

Injuries arising during recreational physical activity of a spontaneous nature

 * Excursions, walks;
 * recreational games;
 * cycling;
 * skiing;
 * skateboard, roller skates.

During non-competitive forms of exercise

 * school TV
 * activities in fitness centers
 * during systematic training

During top-level sports activities

 * this includes both competitive and non-competitive sports activities of the highest level
 * individual competitive sports (athletics, swimming, cycling, skiing,...)
 * mountain climbing

During other sports activities

 * motoring
 * parachuting
 * sport shooting

Injuries of a general nature

 * these are injuries that occur in all human activities

Injuries typical for individual sports activities

 * the risks of basic movement manifestations and connections are reflected here

Fault of the other person

 * an injury caused by a collision or the mere presence of another person

Climatic conditions

 * temperature
 * humidity

Other external factors

 * noise
 * lighting

Gear and armament

 * protective equipment
 * clothes
 * sports equipment

Exercise area surface

 * hardness
 * flexibility
 * inequalities
 * non-slip

Insufficient or incorrect preparation

 * errors in the warm-up or in the training process

Practitioner's own carelessness and indiscipline

 * a relatively common cause
 * non-compliance
 * rules
 * methodology
 * life management
 * overestimation of own performance

Fatigue

 * especially pathological (overload and overtraining)

Unintended crash caused by

 * second person
 * terrain
 * not being able to control one's own movement

Strike (injured is passive)

 * second person
 * moving tools

Injury prevention

 * the state of the organism should always be correlated with the expected load, the organism should be adapted = trained
 * high-quality equipment and weapons
 * knowledge and security of the environment
 * warm-up
 * compensatory exercise (mainly prevents chronic overload and microtrauma)
 * checking pulse rate, blood pressure and athlete's weight
 * complete healing of the injury

Related articles

 * Microtrauma
 * Injury
 * Overtraining
 * Congestion

Used literatury

 * MÁČEK, Miloš a Jiří RADVANSKÝ. Fyziologie a klinické aspekty pohybové aktivity. 1. vydání. Praha : Galén, 2010. 300 s.  ISBN 9788072626953.