In every 1000 tennis matches played research found out that there are around 54 injuries occur during those matches, which is half as many those injuries occur during the same matches played in soccer. There is also less risk of injury during tennis compared with individual sports like running and golf. These injury can be prevented if you understand some of the most common injuries that can occur in your tennis matches and build your strategy to avoid such injuries.
First of all is
Tennis Elbow
-Tennis elbow is where inflammation of the muscles and tendons of the forearm as they attached to the upper arm bone. this inflammation is caused by ex. hammering,weight lifting,playing certain musical instruments,canoeing,digging in the garden, driving and in racket sports.
Tennis elbow cause pain when the outermost part of the elbow is touched and also if you move your hand forward at the back wrist. The pain is worsen by gripping activities and in some cases opening doors can cause intense pain as you turn the door handle.
-- In Preventing Tennis Elbow you should carefully choose racket that has the right size of grip that fits you, if it is too small or too big for you it will cause you to hold the grip too hard. Gripping too hard or too long to the
racket can cause you tennis elbow, before playing or getting into a strenuous activities, make sure you take a regular breaks and stretch the muscles which work over by doing 'limp wrist' and some stretching.
Ankle Sprain
-Sprain is very common in jury in tennis players. Tennis basic movement in court like sideways movement, sudden sideways movement can cause your ankle to twist, specifically if the surface is slippery or player is fatigued.
A twisted ankle caused harm to ligaments and soft tissues around the ankle, swollen ankle that is very painful.
--In preventing Ankle Sprain using ankle brace can help to reduce the injury and it's a strategy that is employed by many tennis pros. Research shows that injury incidence in people with ankle brace was 4.9 ankle sprain per 1000 participants matches, compared to 32.8 ankle sprain per 1000 participant matches in subjects that had no taping or bracing.
Shoulder Pain
-Shoulder Pain occur in players for its repeated stress during racket strokes, specially during serve. there are many sources of this injury in tennis players, but most common causes is Shoulder Bursitis(inflammation of a sac of fluid called a Bursa).
Frequent overuse of the Rotator Cuff muscles can cause the Bursa to get 'impinged' between the muscles and the bony prominence of the shoulder, causing the inflammation. This can result to pain where the arm is raised.
--For players attention must be more on its flexibility, endurance and strength of the muscles. Players should exercise under the supervision of a chartered physiotherapist can also help to prevent impingement. In training it must be gradual so as not to overload the shoulder. The repetition of service action shouyld be increase gradually to allow the body to adapt to increase work load.
Stress Fracture of the back
-Stress fracture or lumbar spine, is one of the most common bone injuries tennis players. Lower back stress fracture can be pain free. Typically it is sore when the player with this type of injury bends backward, particularly if standing on one leg. If a lower back stress fracture is suspected, a docter may decide to refer the patient for a scan to confirm the diagnosis.
--Practicing service should be carefully monitored to ensure the lower back is not being overloaded. Serving in tennis requires a combination of spinal hyperextension together with rotation and side bending of the trunk. This put a lot of stress on the area of the vertebra and its were this stress fracture develops. Core stability exercises can help to prevent such back problems in tennis players.
Calf Strain
-Calf Strain it consist of muscle group Gastrocnemius, Soleus and Plantaris muscles, situated at the back of the lower leg. Their function is to pull up on the heel bone and these muscles are most active during the push-off when a tennis player has to move quickly to react to an opponent's shot. A strain occurs when the muscles is forcibly stretched beyond its limits and the muscle tissue becomes torn.
--Food Diet can have an affect on muscle injuries. If a tennis player's diet is high ion carbohydrate in the 48 hours before a match there will be an adequate supply of the energy that is necessary for muscle contraction.
However, if muscles become short of fuel, fatigue can set, especificaly during long matches. this fatigue can prompt a player to injury. Carbohydrates and fluid can be replenished during matches by taking regular sips of sports drink between games.
