There are many reasons why athletics get injured while doing their sports activity and One of the most common reasons is neglecting the importance of warm ups, as well as stretching. However there are some injuries that do not happen instantly and such injuries will only get worse when you start to ignore the symptoms that build up from it.
Knee injury symptoms
Knee injury is one of the common injuries that most sportsmen are facing today. Here are the few symptoms which one shouldn’t ignore when you’re facing the knee injury:
- When your knee is unable to move within your normal range for more than a day, it is an indicative problem that there is an internal swelling. When this happens, there will be a need to consult an orthopedic specialist. This form of injury includes other joint injuries as well.
- Besides, if you’re unable to exert your full weight on the injured knee, it is a sign whereby you need to rest your leg for a day or two. Should this problem persist, there will be a need for you to consult a doctor.
Pulled Hamstring symptoms
The first symptom when you encounter a pulled hamstring is a sudden sharp pain at the back of your leg. This is usually encountered during high-speed trainings such as sprinting or when heavy pressure exerted while performing the workouts.
There are also other symptoms, such as bruising, swelling, spasm and it will be hard for you contract your hamstring. The symptoms are such as:
- Bruising occurs when there are small tears that cause bleeding. This will eventually result to bruising at the back of your thighs.
- Swelling, which usually causes muscle contraction, is a symptom that usually occurs due to the accumulation of blood from an injured hamstring.
- Spasm, due to the sudden effect (sprint) to the muscle, its control of contraction is generally confused. This might cause the muscle to be stimulated.
Calf Muscle Strained symptoms
The muscle is strained is because it has been stretched too much. Should there be greater pressure exerted, it will result in a muscle pull or even a muscle tear. These symptoms of calf muscle straining vary from 3 different grades:
- Grade 1, least amount of disability which usually does not have much effect on the activity that the sportsman is participating.
- Grade 2, bruising and swelling may be involved which might cause a substantial form of discomfort to the sportsman. This may limit him from participating certain vigorous activity.
- Grade 3, this strain will restrict sportsman from walking and further worsened the swelling and bruising condition.
