We are a nation of sports lovers, who spend a lot of our spare time indulging in our favourite sporting pastimes. Successive lockdowns have seen even greater numbers of people take up new sports, with running and cycling among the most popular in the last couple of years.
Unfortunately, with participation sports comes the inevitability of injuries, that we’re all prone to suffer from. Despite following rigorous and disciplined warm up and warm down exercises, many of us will experience the odd injury as a direct result of our preferred sporting pursuits.
But have you ever wondered just which are the most common sporting accidents?
Here at DIYPI we did just that and decided to conduct our own bit of research to uncover what the most recurrent sports injuries.
Staying Active Can in Itself Lead to Physical Accidents and Injuries
It’s widely considered that sport and exercise are enormously beneficial when it comes to giving your physical AND mental wellbeing a boost. Staying fit and maintaining an active lifestyle certainly pays dividends in many ways. Including building up your immune system and encouraging positivity, whilst research also proves it aids better sleep patterns as well as providing you with more energy in general.
However sporting injuries are largely unavoidable issues faced by people who exercise on a regular basis. And which tend to occur more when an individual has overexerted themselves, not performed exercises properly and when neglecting to warm up and down fully.
So, What Represents the Most Coming Sporting Accidents?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, knee injuries account for a large percentage of sporting setbacks of a physical nature, along with ankle and hamstring sprains. All typically picked up from running, where a significant amount of pressure is put on our joints as a result of the high impact nature. Over half of all sports injuries occur in the knee, and are chiefly caused by our kneecaps grinding against our leg bones. Participants of sports which necessitate overhead transitions, including tennis, swimming and basketball are more prone to knee injuries.
Meanwhile shin splints, pulled groins and tennis elbow figure prominently when discussing repeated sports accidents and subsequent injuries.
Broadly-speaking muscle strains and sprains are prevalent in sports injuries terms, and can occur in almost any muscle found in the human body. Especially when subjected to unnatural levels of pressure, where they can easily tear. Certain movements, over-stimulation or pulling in opposite directions can result in varying degrees of pain. Ligaments are more normally affected, in their capacity as tissue which connects our bones.
Concussion and Fractures Figure Prominently in Sporting Accident Data
Concussion is mentioned a lot in conversations and research regarding sporting accidents, with high impact sports bearing the brunt of statistical evidence. Mild or severe, cases of concussion should always lead to an appointment with a GP, with classic symptoms ranging from headaches and dizziness through to loss of consciousness in the more extreme cases.
Fractures are also commonplace, and are best described as when bones in our bodies are chipped or broken; leading to discomfort and pain. Fracture recovery times vary depending on injury severity and where the injury is located on the body. Elsewhere, tennis elbow is an old favourite with a habit of still making sports injury countdowns. Similar to sprains, tennis elbow occurs when consistent overuse of elbow ligaments cause pain in this pivotal arm joint.
While some sports accidents are just that, many others might have been avoidable. And later found to have been the result of negligence on behalf of a third party. For example, a sports facility which might have had faulty equipment which you used, or the victim having been in receipt of bad training advice from members of leisure centre staff. Such instances would relate to public liability claims. Otherwise substandard organisation of a sporting event could have led to an injury befalling you, along with various other back stories.
We Can Help You Claim Compensation for Sporting Accidents and Subsequent Injuries
Should you have been involved in a sporting accident which wasn’t your fault, then you could be entitled to compensation. Which would be paid out if a sports injury claim is settled by a responsible party which failed in its duty of care.
DIYPI are well versed in managing claims of all types and have history in representing numerous clients over the past two decades. To find out more about what our experienced team can offer you, give us a call today on 0800 048 8896
