Sports Injuries In Football
Football is a high-contact and high-energy sport. There are lots of movements and sudden change in direction of movement occurs in football. Most Sports injuries in football are caused directly by trauma with the opposition or landing awkwardly from a jump. Sometimes injury occurs due to wrong technique, weak musculature, or inadequate training.
Rehabilitation from an injury is absolutely crucial in order to return to your best. But before that, a sportsperson should train as per his sports and only proper training can prevent a football player from severe injury. For this, a sports physiotherapist design a sport as well as a player-specific training program which includes not only the weak part of that footballer but also conditioning of already stronger parts.
Most Common Football Injuries are such as- Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury, Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injury, meniscus injury, Ankle Sprain, Achilles tendonitis, Pulled calf muscle, Hamstring and quadriceps Strain, groin strains, and shoulder dislocations.
The key factor in all sports injury rehabilitation protocols is injury prevention. Such as-
hamstring strengthening program like-
- Hamstring curls
- Bent knee bridging
- Straight leg bridging
- Single leg walk dow
- Coupled with, Eccentric knee flexion
quadriceps strengthening program-
- Squatting
- Goblet squats
- Lunges
- Weighted knee extension
- Reverse Nordic curl
- Eccentric knee extension is equally important
Calf muscles strengthening-
- Heel raise
- Weighted heel raise
- In addition, Eccentric ankle plantar flexion with resistance band
Core strengthening exercises
- Planks
- Then, Crunches
- Reverse crunches
- Dragon flag
Drills to improve performance
- 3 cone drill
- lateral cone shuffles
- broad jump
- As well as, forward/backward cone runs
High tech modalities used in sports rehabilitation
- Extracorporeal shock wave
- Likewise, Super inductive system
- Targeted Radiofrequency machine
- Cryo-air
- High-intensity laser, etc.
And similarly, many things included in the rehab program, a physiotherapist assure to train you to give you your best
Additionally, At Elite physiotherapy and sports injury center, highly experienced doctors plan a rehab program according to your condition and sports and use all high-tech modalities wherever it would require. Thus, Elite physiotherapy and sports injury center is a specialized clinic in Delhi NCR for sports injury rehabilitation or training