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artikel :	How To Avoid Injury In Sport
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Sport and war are two different things but have many similar things. Those similar elements are fighting, strategy, and attack. But, sport isn’t a war. At least, sport is very sportive. But, the one which is almost the same with war is that sport sometimes makes its player injured too.

Generally, injuries that happen in sport aren’t caused by physical contact. But more often are because wrong technique in kicking, boxing, jumping, or in lifting more weights. The suddenly movement also can cause injury especially in joint knees, elbow, shoulder, and waist.

It’s different with a warm injury in sport can be prevented by paying attention to five things: muscle strength, flexibility, habit, instruments, and alertness.

1. Muscle Strength
   Before doing sport, you have to make sure that your muscle is in a strong condition. One thing that can improve your muscle strength is weight workout. So, even you do swimming, golf, tennis, or the other sports, it’s very important to combine them with weight workout. Focus your weight workout to muscle part that you used on that sport. For an example, leg press workout for you who love playing basketball so it can improve your jump. Besides that, according to Mitchel Beazley, the writer of The Complete Book of Men’s Health, weight workout is also can prevent the loss of bone mass or osteoporosis, which has risk to get injured. But be careful with your technique used in weight lifting. Wrong technique in holding the weight can cause a fatal accident for your muscle.
2. Flexibility
   A good flexibility is got by doing enough stretching before doing sport. If you have good flexibility, you can move easier and more effective so your risk to get injured is getting lower. Focus on stretching after warming up all joint parts in your body. Do it slowly and hold on for 30 seconds in every movement.
3. Habit
   Always start your sport with warming-up for 10-15 minutes. Muscle which is already warmed can penetrate oxygen more effective, so it can prevent fatigue. If you’ll do new sport which you never done before, ask the instructor about the right technique before doing that sport. After finish, don’t forget to cool down your muscle so it can relax and stable again. After that, end all sessions with stretching again to prevent your muscle injured. Do same stretching with the one you did before doing sport. Focus on muscle that you used when you’re doing sport.
4. Instruments
   Instruments have an important role in avoiding injury. For an example, if you’re riding a bike, use safety helmet. Besides that, make sure that the cogs can be moved easily. Your clothes also have to fit with the activity and the temperature around you. Don’t get too hot or too cold when doing sport. You also need to choose the appropriate shoes to avoid injury. Use shoes with the right size and have shock absorption technology and qualified support.
5. Alertness
   You have to understand the condition around your place doing exercise. Be careful with instruments that can injure you. And if you feel there’s something wrong with your body, take a rest. Don’t push yourself because it will make your injury getting worse.

You’re injured? Don’t Panic!

If you get injured, do the first help with RICE method: Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation.

Injured Muscle

Rest the injured part and don’t move it overactive. Put ice compress on the injured muscle for about 10 minutes every 3 hours. If you don’t have compress ice, you can use wrapped cloth ice. Then compress that part with a bandage. Don’t be too tight because it can affect the blood circulation. Finally, placed the injured part higher than your heart position for about 20 minutes.

Broken Bones

If this is happened, meet the doctor quickly. This problem must be handled by a professional.