Overtraining Issues and Injuries
How to recognize and prevent overtraining for your sports.
Tendonitis is a common sports injury that often occurs from overuse. Tendonitis can cause deep, nagging pain that is caused by inflammation of tendons. Treating tendonitis consists of rest, medication, physical therapy or changes to equipment or technique.
Overuse syndromes are common sports injuries that result from repetitive use, stress and trauma to the soft tissues of the body (muscles, tendons, bones and joints) without proper time for healing.
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From
the Physician and Sports Medicine an article about how cumulative, repetitive microtrauma can cause tissue damage that leads to overuse injuries, and how to treat these injuries.
With the growth of youth sports programs, overuse injuries in young people have become common. Read aout causes, identification, treatment and prevention.
Substantially lowered physical strength in combination with an increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections which may lead to life threatening disease, are some of the consequences of overtraining.
