Endurance Sports Injury Prevention and Treatment

Being a good athlete whether you a cyclist or not is very dependent on many factors. One of these factors is health. Now I am not only meaning health as in sickness, but also health as in injury. I think everyone can say that being injured sucks. It hurts, and it can take one away from what her or she loves to do. I for one can speak to this statement, due to many different instances. I am here to share with you some experiences which have helped me to learn how to avoid injury.

As a very active and busy person I have come into conflict with injury in many different situations including, running, baseball, and biking. I have had injuries that range from tendonitis, sprained ankle, bursitis, broken arms, legs, collar bone, along with many other pains that have slowed my progression of improving in sports down. Now one might expect that I have learned something about how to stay injury free, and I sure have.

To keep injury to come and haunt your life as a endurance athlete it is very important to first work into you intense work outs gradually with less mileage. If one were to jump into something that their body isn’t ready for to early, one could suffer things such as tendonitis, pulled muscles, bursitis, and stress fractures. As I am writing this blog post, I can give you a first hand example of how things such as stress fractures can happen. After coming off of 2 surgeries on my tibia and broken fibula I went through 2 seasons of running with limited to running due to leg pains including shin splints. After starting track this spring about a month and half ago I thought that this season was going to be different as my legs felt strong and pain free. But after the beginning of March my hypothesis was very wrong. I began to feel a strong pain just below my knee, and after a couple weeks of resting and nothing getting better I was diagnosed with a stress fracture to my right tibia. I believe my injury like many other peoples, came from compensation from another injury. One shouldn’t start their workouts until they can complete the task in a normal manner.

Okay so that’s what you should know before you begin your endurance sport. But once you have began doing your workouts its vital to stretch a couple times a day, along with rolling out and getting massages, as tightness of muscles can cause a wide variety of injuries. If an onset of pain occurs, one should ice and decrease the intensity of a work out to decrease inflammation. If the pain doesn’t get any better an appointment with a doctor is necessary. I hope this helped a little. Good luck with your next season.

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