As most of us know, the human body is composed of innumerable bones and joints. It’s worth to take care of them. Otherwise if you are playing your favorite sport, you might just end up with a bad knee joint or other bad joint. Recently, an increased number of English sportsmen and women reported joint pains. Sports like Racquetball, rugby and those involving lot of cardiovascular activity can do some major damage to the joints.
Ankles and knee joints are most vulnerable parts of the player’s body. If anyone of these get damaged while playing, it can be hard on the player. Expensive and time consuming rehab sessions are then required to get things back on track after the damage.This is why most coaches are make sure participants understand the health consequences of the sports.
Against the popular opinion that joint pain occurs to older people,doctors believe that it can happen to any sports personality irrespective of their age. Sports doctor Joseph Babicki agrees:
Many people think that joint pain is simply correlated to age. In fact joint pain is common at any age and is very common among young active sports persons.
A recent claim made by the health firm LitoZin states that about 68% of active survey participants reportedly suffered from joint pains. Generally, rest, keeping the area in an elevated position and ice treatment prevents the pain.Joint health supplements do help keep things under control. Maybe it’s time that I start taking my thigh pain more seriously.
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