5 First Aid Tips For Common Sports Injuries

Athletes, sports persons or fitness enthusiasts or any one who is into sports activities are prone to sports injuries. In fact sports injuries are integral parts and parcels of your sporting career. But there are ways in which you can avoid getting injured and reduce the number of sports injuries.

Following are 5 tips on first aid for common sports injuries. These happen to be quick treatment techniques which minimize the pain and affliction pretty quickly. This also helps in quicker healing and fast recovery.

Tip # 1

It is often noticed that sports injuries are accompanied by sudden pain and swelling in that area. And if you experience any such excruciating pain you should immediately stop exercising or playing that game. This is the 1st preventive step towards ensuring that you don’t damage your body further.
After stopping your activity, you have to start appropriate treatment instantaneously. Give your body adequate rest to heal itself completely.

Tip # 2

People are often confused about whether they should apply heat or ice to their injuries. Normally you have to apply ice to treat your injury at first. But when the injury has healed quite a bit, you will experience niggling pains, chronic aches and muscle tension. To ease these things, you may apply heat.

Tip # 3

The best way to minimize injuries and swellings is to use ice compression on that area. This reduces the swelling and associated pain. When you experience acute soft tissue injuries such as tears, springs, strains or bruises, you have to minimize, stop and prevent the swelling. There might even be internal bleeding for all you know when soft tissue damage occurs.

Take an ice compression and apply this on your injury. The injured part of your body has to be placed at an elevated level above the level of your heart. And for keeping the swelling in check, you may take the help of a compression wrap. This checks the pooling of blood inside tissues.

However, it is best to wrap the bandages snugly so that you are comfortable and not too tightly.

Tip # 4

You have to learn the proper method of icing your injury. After wrapping your injury with a compression wrap, you have to apply ice on it. This is more effective. You have to apply ice like this several times daily and each ice session should last for at least 20 minutes.

Tip # 5

It is foolish to apply heat on acute injuries for this will aggravate the injury.
I therefore, personally feel being prepared with sports first aid or sports first aid kit is a good idea for individual athletes and teams.