What are sports-specific injuries?

Specialty sports injuries are injuries that are highly bound to the technical action patterns and high-frequency force generation characteristics of a specific sport. They are specific injuries that occur frequently among practitioners of the corresponding sports and high-frequency enthusiasts. They have obvious attributes that are different from sports injuries caused by ordinary accidental collisions.

If you often go to training grounds or sports venues, you must have a particularly intuitive sense of this kind of injury. Badminton players gather together to chat, and nine out of ten people complain about shoulder pain or inner elbow pain. If you talk to marathon runners, half of them have suffered from iliotibial band friction syndrome. The crime of levy is just like if you use scissors to cut cardboard every day, the small piece in the middle of the blade is always worn. The fixed body part that is repeatedly used in special movements is the blade that is repeatedly stressed. The worn position is basically fixed. This is the most typical special injury.

I have been recovering from sports for almost eight years. I can basically guess what the opponent usually practices by just looking at the location of the injury. Last year, several young gymnasts who received youth training from provincial teams all suffered from metatarsal stress fractures. How could this injury be concentrated in other sports? In gymnastics, you have to stretch your feet to take off and use your forefoot to cushion the landing every day. Those metatarsal bones bear repeated pressure, and it is easy to cause problems as soon as the intensity of training increases. There are also those athletes who practice weightlifting all year round. Even if their movements are standard like textbook templates, they will most likely suffer from old strain of the lumbar spine in the later stages of their careers. After all, squatting with weights several times their body weight all year round puts real pressure on the spine.

There is no absolute consensus on this type of injury in the industry. Old-school coaches always say, "If you haven't been injured in the corresponding event, you haven't really practiced it." They believe that this type of injury is an inevitable result determined by the attributes of the event. As long as you practice to a certain amount, you can't avoid it.； However, most of today's young physical fitness and rehabilitation practitioners do not agree with this statement. They feel that these "exclusive injuries" can be completely bypassed as long as the movement patterns are corrected, the weak muscle groups related to the project are repaired in advance, and the training load is well controlled.

I personally feel that both views are reasonable. If you take a professional route and strive for top results, the training load will always touch the critical value of the body, leaving some minor strain. However, if you are an ordinary amateur, there is really no need to treat "training for special injuries" as a glorious advanced certificate. If you have soreness and discomfort in the corresponding parts, you can adjust your movements early and reduce the amount, and you can completely avoid these unnecessary troubles.