Using good technique in sport is beneficial because it promotes high performance and reduces the risk of injury. Players need to develop the skills necessary to perform the movements of their sport correctly. If players learn and use incorrect techniques they may at first perform well but they are placing themselves at increased risk of both acute and chronic injury that will reduce their ability to perform. Players should be responsible for learning correct
techniques, practising them and using them in competition. Coaches should make teaching correct technique a priority and should frequently observe their players’ performance to ensure those techniques are being used.
Providing a safe environment involves providing protection from hazards in the physical environment, as well as promoting a safety culture. A variety of hazards in the physical environment can place players at an increased risk of injury. These can be related to the weather conditions temperature and humidity, the facilities playing surfaces and surrounding. There are also a number of risks associated with a club or sports group organisation not having a good safety culture. Developing a good safety culture involves adopting formal injury prevention policies and practices and ensuring that safety is given priority among everyone involved in the sport or
activity.
Other sports players can cause injury especially in contact sports such as rugby due to the rules allowing tackling. In non contact sport injuries can be caused by fouls or accidental collisions. To prevent injuries in rugby the correct technique must be used when tackling.
All equipment used in sports needs to be designed and maintained to meet an appropriate level of safety. Equipment such as goal posts, nets and corner flags
can become dangerous if it is in bad condition or not assembled correctly. The equipment needs to be checked before use. For example, goal posts need to be
assessed to ensure they are stable, secure and well put in the ground. Nets on goals and hoops need to be checked to prevent them from coming free and being caught on fingers. Securely attached padding around posts should be
used to prevent collision injuries. Corner posts and marker flags should be made of materials that flex on impact and there should be no sharp tips.
The other group is called intrinsic risk factors this is caused by a risk within the body. They include inadequate warm up, muscle imbalance, poor preparation, posture defects, poor technique, overuse and age.
The warm-up aims to prepare the mind, heart, muscles and joints for physical activity. Its benefits include improved performance, greater psychological preparation, and injury prevention. It also offers a significant general health benefit: vigorous exercise started without a warm-up has been shown to place a large amount of stress on the heart and can lead to cardiovascular difficulties such as a heart attack.
Muscle imbalance can lead to a number of injuries, it is caused when an antagonistic pair is stronger than the other. This can result in knee injuries because the hamstring is not strong enough to put a break on the kicking action of the knee it can lead to shin splits.
Poor preparation includes the amount of training and having the correct fitness level to play the sport, good preparation enables players to meet all the physical requirements of their sport and prepares the body for the rigours of the activity. Each sporting activity places unique physical demands upon its players depending upon factors such as endurance, power and contact.
Posture defects can have strain on one side of the body and would make the person more likely to sustain injuries after long periods of exercising. This may something you were born with possibly having one leg slightly longer than the other. There are three types of malalignment of the vertebrae which includes scoliosis which is sideway bending of the spine, then there is kyphosis which is an arching of the upper back and the last one is lordosis which is an inward curve at the lower back.
Players need to develop the skills necessary to perform the movements of their sport correctly. If players learn and use incorrect techniques they may at first perform well but they are placing themselves at increased risk of both acute and chronic injury that will reduce their ability to perform. Players should be responsible for learning correct techniques, practising them and using them in competition. Coaches should make teaching correct technique a priority and should frequently observe their players’ performance to ensure those techniques are being used.
Overuse can cause swelling in the tendons and can lead to tendonitis. It is caused when a participant does not give his body time to recover and the body will get weaker and weaker until an injury occurs. An example of this is a weightlifter not giving time for his muscle to grow and repair.
Depending on age there are many types of injuries which can include a young person falling down and with middle-aged people the most common is collisions and violence. In the older age group the most common injury is overuse.
