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Safety in Sports & Performance Enhancement: An Overview
Naveen Sangwan
D.P.E., GSSS Pakasma, Rohtak (HR.)
ABSTRACT:
The research paper is focuses on the
importance of sports safety-specifically
relating to overuse injuries and further
to enhance the performance of sports
person. The initiative not only raises
awareness and provides education on
injury reduction, but also highlights
how playing safe and smart can
enhance and extend a child's athletic
career and create a lifelong love of
exercise and healthy activity. Most of
the children have dream to become a
sports person. Therefore, they would
likes to contribute and give their best
results in their sports every year and
while playing in ground; lots of children
are diagnosed with overuse injuries
every year as well. The sports of today
have changed the way the players play
the game. Starting on the professional
sports level, bad sportsmanship
behaviors, like the use of steroids or
"throwing" a game or a match in an
effort to please the sports gambler
trying to get their big pay-off, has
trickled down. Even though in
playgrounds We do know that these
maladies most frequently result from
overload or repetitive micro trauma
stemming from extrinsic factors such as
training errors, poor performance, poor
techniques and inappropriate surfaces
or intrinsic factors including
misalignment and muscle imbalance.
Here we are trying to get to know the
facts of overuse injuries which curse the
teenager. It includes the basic things
such as ground techniques, handling
mental pressure, and anticipation
technique for each analysis in addition
to reasons why it happens and how the
teenage could overcome. Now it’s time
to be taught how to play in ground and
how playing sports teaches an
individual about how to work with other
people and how to pull together as a
family.
INTRODUCTION:
A number of studies prove that
participating in sports comprise much
more positive impact on children.
Sports can help children’s health
approve, help them develop new
friends, and can help improve the
children’s self confidence. Sports may
help improve children’s overall health,
but injury become hurdle in between.
Sometimes preventing common sports
injuries is beyond our control, but many
times sports injuries are preventable.
Some injuries we bring on ourselves
because we're not conditioned for the
activity. For this it is advised to sports
person that Work out day after day and
get twofold advantage — skill
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development and garner the health
benefits. Every workout should start
with a gentle warm-up to prevent
common sports injuries. Scientifically
proved that getting warmed up increases
blood flow to the muscles, gets sports
person more flexible, and could
decrease injuries. Million dollar
question is that “Why do Injuries
Occur?” ; when we revealed out there is
couple of reasons behind it, a few of
them is as follows:-
Lack of Safety Measures: Aside from
the lack of proper skills and techniques,
the absence of safety measures is also a
major reason injuries occur in youth
sports. A common misconception by
many adults is that safety precautions
do not need to be taught until more
advanced levels of play. However, the
earlier safety techniques are
implemented the more effective they
will be. For example, in the sport of
cricket, something as simple as learning
to wear a helmet anytime a player is on
the field protects that child from
swinging bats. If safety measures are
not followed it often creates an
increased risk of injuries. Not
practicing safety rules is simply
ignorant and essentially endangers the
lives of all of those who participate in
the sport.
Overtraining and Sports Psychology:
An increasing problem amongst youth
athletes in our country is overtraining,
or burnout syndrome. Burnout, “a
series of psychological, physiological,
and hormonal changes that result in
decreased sports performance”, can
have a serious impact on a young athlete
and their future in sports. When an
athlete experiences burnout syndrome
their initiative and interest in their
activities significantly decreases in
addition to their work performance and
efficiency. They may also be fatigued
and extremely stressed by normal
activities as a result from excessive
work outs without adequate
recuperation time. Pressure from
parents, coaches and peers is a major
factor in burnout syndrome. These
individuals often push the athlete
against their will to perform at a higher
level, and considering that only 0.2
percent to 0.5 percent of high school
athletes make it to the professional
level, parents or athletes dreams of
doing so are often farfetched. It is
recommended that athletes learn to
recognize their mental and physical
limits so as to protect themselves from
injury, for if such boundaries are
pushed, the damage may be irreversible.
Lack of Skill: In adolescent sports,
many athletes lack the skills needed to
play the sport effectively and safely,
often resulting in injuries. A school
going child has not enough skilled to
play safe. Putting a child of that age into
a team or contact sport endangers the
child as well as the other athletes
playing. Therefore, it is often
recommended to wait until introduce the
child with safety features. It is the job
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and duty of the coach to make sure that
an athlete has the skills needed to safely
participate in a sport. A Sports person
ought to be learned and recognize he
must have left it all on the field and stop
all the things when he is fatigued
because muscle fatigue takes away all
his protective mechanisms and really
increases his risk of all injuries. He can
always come out to play again next
weekend — if he does not get injured
today
INJURY PREVENTION
TECHNIQUE
Usually, common sports injuries
are mild or moderate — there's some
damage, but everything is still in place.
Anyone can treat it at home but one
should expect that some common sports
injuries may take months to heal, even
with good treatment. If a sprain or strain
is severe, however, the entire muscle,
tendon, or ligament is torn away, and
surgery may be needed. Therefore a
sportsperson must aware about the
RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, and
Elevation) method to relieve pain,
reduce swelling, and speed healing.
Follow these steps right after the injury
occurs and take at least 48 hours rest to
reduce regular activities to cure from
injuries
Stretching: The stretching is the most
important and significant way to reduce
the likelihood of injury when
participating in sports. Competitive and
recreational athletes typically perform
warm-up and stretching activities to
prepare for more strenuous exercise.
These preliminary activities are used to
enhance physical performance and to
prevent sports-related injuries.
A flexible muscle is less likely to
become injured from a slightly
extensive movement. By increasing the
range of motion in a particular joint
through stretching, may decrease the
resistance on muscles during various
activities. It also helps relieve post- exercise aches and pains.
Warm-up techniques are
primarily used to increase body
temperature and are classified in 3
major categories: (a) passive warm-up
— increases temperature by some
external means; (b) general warm-up —
increases temperature by nonspecific
body movements; and (c) specific
warm-up — increases temperature using
similar body parts that will be used in
the subsequent, more strenuous activity.
The best of these appears to be specific
warm-up because this method provides
a rehearsal of the activity or event. The
intensity and duration of warm-up must
be individualized according to the
athlete’s physical capabilities and in
consideration of environmental factors
which may alter the temperature
response.
The majority of the benefits of
warm-up are related to temperature- dependent physiological processes. An
elevation in body temperature produces
