WHAT TO DO TO PREVENT AN INJURY: PREVENTION AND RECOVERY?
An injury is one of the greatest fears of an athlete. And, at the same time, one of the most serious problems found within a professional's career. For this reason injury prevention should be an obligation in the day to day of an athlete. Objective: avoid injuries.
Even so, once an injury has occurred, the right decisions must be taken from the first stage. Otherwise, it could delay recovery, leave chronic problems or even force the athlete to leave the sport. For this reason it is essential to define the method of work from the start to indicate both the athlete and those responsible for its recovery when to return to training.
Steps we follow since the injury occurs until the return to sports practice:
First and foremost, given that it is impossible to work effectively without knowing from which point we start. We need a real assessment based on technology. We will determine which are the deficits that the injury or problem is generating in the athlete. Physiological assessments do little to help us in this regard. What they offer us are parameters such as pulsations or blood lactate index. These are only performance control values. We carry out a muscular assessment that helps us determine exactly where we are and what the focus of the problem may be.
Once the athlete's condition is clear, we are in the ideal situation to start working. The muscular deficits presented are those that must be strengthened to balance the muscles and return to get the power values needed to recover the player and avoid having physical issues again. In this phase, the physiotherapist and the osteopath are of vital importance. They will help release tension within the most loaded areas in order to continue with the scheduled work.
The last part of the process is to re-control. And so discover the results of the actions that have been carried out. In addition, it is the objective way to show the player when it will be ready to return to the field. Always with a minimum risk of relapse and with totally transparent values and comparable with the non-injured sector.
The secret is to be able to control the intramuscular and intermuscular values to verify that they all work in a balanced way and thus offer a more reliable guarantee than with a manual, totally subjective test can offer you.
This is not a single and isolated process. It must be repeated over time so that at all times we have objective control. And so we will know exactly what each athlete needs to be in an optimal state of shape and prevent possible injuries.
In the 10 years of Global Performance history there has been a 0% relapse. And recoveries shortening deadlines very effectively.
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