Sports Injuries

Ankle and Foot Injuries on Ice Hockey Ankle and Foot injuries are very common in Ice Hockey, that is not a surprise giving the nature of the sport. The combination of high-speed, hard body contact with big and fast players sliding over the ice surface using rigid boots on top of a thin sharp blade. This can end very badly for some players ankle and foot. Ankle sprains are the most common injuries in hockey players, In the NHL, for example, players reach easily 30 mph, and in a fall that speed can be cut in half in less than a second and when that happens with a foot rotated the injury is almost certain. Forward players are the one that torn their ankles more often; they are always rush toward the goal or after the puck having to pass by the big and tough defenseman.  Although goalies don’t skate at high speed, they are turning their ankles in almost every save they do, and that can lead to a high-ankle sprain. The high-ankle sprain keeps players on the sidelines l

TYPES OF SHOULDER INJURIES IN FoOTBALL The most common types of shoulder injuries include shoulder dislocations and separations. These can occur from direct contact with another player or the playing surface. Shoulder dislocations occur when the humerus ball disassociates from the scapular socket. The shoulder is one of the most frequently dislocated joints in the body. A shoulder separation, on the other hand, occurs when the ligaments attached to the collarbone partially or completely tear away from the shoulder blade. Symptoms of a dislocation or separation include severe pain, grinding, limited movement and a visible deformity. Rotator cuff tears often occur from overuse and repetitive motion, such as throwing a football, or trauma from man-to-man contact or a fall. There are two different types of rotator cuff tears. In a partial tear, the tendon is not completely detached from the bone, whereas a complete, full-thickness tear occurs when the tendon is torn away from

Marielle Thompson, the reigning Olympic champion and number one ranked female ski cross athlete in the world, has suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate  ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) in training. Thompson was training in Saas Fee, Switzerland with Canada Ski Cross for a pre-season preparation camp when the fall took place. Thompson was doing a training run and overshot a jump, resulting in the crash. Thompson flew back to Canada for further assessment where an MRI was conducted at Canada Diagnostics in Vancouver to confirm the injury.  Full Article: https://alpinecanada.org/news/marielle-thompson-suffers-knee-injury-in-training

As winter comes up the NFL playoffs starts to get heated but the risks of playing in cold and sometimes frozen fields go unnoticed. Running and hitting each other is hard enough in an excellent weather can you imagine in a freezing cold day. Not to say the how slippery could it be the frozen grass and that is dangerous, as it becomes so easy to hurt our ankles or feet. Dr. Nakra wrote a nice article on Common Ankle & Foot injuries in the NFL   Take your time to check out her article about it. Cheers.... Let's Play and be safe...