The organs of our body develop according to the demands made on the organism by environmental stimuli. While insufficient stress causes the underdevelopment and regression of the respective organs, constant training and sports increase the functions and performances of our body.
Sport and health
There is no question that the sport activity at any age is one of the main factors for maintaining health, development and stabilization of the musculoskeletal system and internal organs. There is no question that sporting activity at any age is one of the main factors in maintaining health, developing and stabilizing the musculoskeletal system and internal organs. The urge to move of the infant as well as the adolescent shows us that the movement or the stimulus of movement is one of the necessary stimuli for development and growth. But also in adulthood a versatile functional stress of all organ systems has to be maintained, because the living conditions of many people, the striving for comfort and the often one-sided occupational stress, form a completely insufficient stimulus to promote the maintenance of the performance and adaptability of our body. Increased susceptibility to illness and premature aging are often the result of this one-sided lifestyle. The health-promoting effect of sport has been known for a long time and has been exploited in healing science for thousands of years. Even seriously ill people are treated with special forms of exercise according to medical prescription, because such exercises promote recovery and, on the other hand, also enable the social reintegration of sick people, who thereby regain their zest for life. The close link between balancing exercise and improving performance or increasing resistance to illness has also been experienced by those who exercise regularly every day during working hours or after work.
Sport as disease prevention
Exercise can also be used to prevent many leg diseases. For example, blood congestion on the leg, which leads to leg swelling, varicose veins or even open legs. The frequently voiced opinion: “What is the point of doing sports if I am already overstrained all day by standing, walking or other workloads? “, we can only excuse with ignorance. Such strain is almost always one-sided and causes overstraining of individual muscle groups, which can lead to nutritional disorders, swelling and even skin discoloration. Foot deformities such as flat feet, splay feet or even flat feet are also frequently observed as a result of such one-sided strain. In contrast, compensatory sport achieves a reciprocal strain on all muscles and promotes respiration as well as blood circulation, which leads to improved tissue nutrition. Thus, the all-round stimulation of the organ systems prevents the so-called overstraining diseases and contributes to the recovery to a great extent. We can experience the health-promoting effect of sporting activity particularly impressively, for example, during winter sports vacations. The movement in the open air creates the necessary balance to the so often occurring movement poverty or movement one-sidedness, which is connected with simultaneous sensory stimulus overload with very many humans. The great exercise stress on the limbs and organ systems necessarily brings about nerve relaxation and thus excellent recovery from everyday overload.
Sport promotes the immune system
The metabolic revitalization and stimulation of blood circulation caused by stronger movement increases performance and health, and at the same time enhances the feeling of being alive. The metabolic revitalization and stimulation of blood circulation caused by stronger movement increase the performance and health and at the same time increase the feeling of being alive. As a result, neurotic diseases can be cured suddenly. In addition, the body’s resistance to diseases increases, which is expressed mainly in the fact that the people concerned are spared from respiratory infections even in the seasons with unfavorable weather conditions. But also the healing of leg and foot diseases during childhood can be promoted by the climatic stimulus.Sporting activity, properly applied, therefore promotes health and prevents disease. If, nevertheless, sports injuries are mentioned here, it should be noted that they play only a minor role and could be largely avoided if their causes were taken into account. Every sporting exercise requires experience of movement, i.e. repeated training. First, one practices the easy-to-learn movement sequences, then the complicated ones that require the interaction of all muscle groups. Skiing, especially alpine on slopes and mountains, water jumping, apparatus gymnastics, also ball games, require in any case a daily preparatory movement training, whereby the age, the sport experience and training break as well as the body condition determine the intensity of the exercise construction. If this knowledge is not respected, in most cases injuries of the body will occur. However, the exercise process is not only endangered in case of inadequate training, but also in case of overtiredness of the muscles, localized pain and hypothermia. Muscle strains, muscle tears and irritation of venous gliding tissue and muscle attachments are the result.
Prevent sports injuries
The lighter disruption of the movement process leads to strains. In contrast, fall injuries are common in the sports that require special reaction speed with simultaneous complicated movement. Injuries to joints with torn ligaments and broken bones, on the other hand, occur when the body’s performance capacity is overestimated and cannot cope with the demands placed on it. Taking winter sports as an example, further causes of injury are mentioned, the attention to which is absolutely necessary in order to avoid the most common leg injuries resulting from this. This can be achieved by using proper sports equipment (safety bindings, ski length, correct ski boots), training the body well and mastering a good technique. Furthermore, by adapting the speed to one’s own ability or to the difficulty of the downhill course, taking into account the snow conditions as well as the ground conditions and considering the form of the day. In a figurative sense, this list can also apply in a modified form to an accident prevention course in general. Bone fracture is understood to mean a separation in a bone, usually sudden, caused by the action of force. This is referred to as avulsion, bending, twisting, shearing or compression fractures. Immediate careful splinting prevents severe deformities with lateral displacement, angular bending, rotation in the longitudinal axis, shortening or lengthening of the fracture ends. Immobilization in a plaster cast or similar for several weeks ensures healing of the fracture in question.
Sports and joints
Joints are particularly vulnerable in accidents. Strains and twists are most common, and can cause capsular and ligament injuries with bruising and joint swelling. Joints are particularly vulnerable in accidents. Strains and twists are most common and can cause capsular and ligamentous injuries with bruising and joint swelling. More severe violence usually causes dislocation, a permanent displacement of two bone ends that together form a joint, usually accompanied by a joint capsule tear. In addition to ligament injuries at the ankle joint, internal knee injuries are particularly common, especially with injury to the menisci and cruciate ligaments. The mechanism of injury is predominantly seen in a mostly jerky twisting of the upper body or thigh in relation to the lower leg fixed to the ground. Especially the soccer player and the inexperienced skier are very often exposed to this twisting trauma. In most cases, this injury is preceded by attrition of the meniscus due to constant incorrect or one-sided loading. Constant absolute fixation of the lower leg, caused by the cleated soccer shoe, even during training games, monotonous training load during jumping, constant overload in the case of leg deformities, for example knock-knees and bowlegs, or monotonous occupational overload, as in the case of miners or assembly line workers, are among the factors that increase the risk of injury. The first sign of incipient injury is pain. It indicates that a change in load, but without using pain-relieving medication, must occur, because only it can prevent an injury in time, but pain-relieving medication can only eliminate the momentary feeling of pain.
Overwork and overload in sports
Another injury to the leg that is triggered by overdemand and overuse is Achilles tendon rupture. But it can also be avoided if the load requirement is matched early enough with the performance and with the ability of the person concerned, and painkilling infections of any kind are avoided. So we can see that most or better all sports injuries and sports damage can be prevented if the performance demand is kept within reasonable limits and matches the individual’s ability. The medical doctor, together with the educator, has the task with regard to sports to educate and help in such a way that damage is prevented, so that the health-promoting value of sports benefits everyone. Good movement training, pronounced reaction speed and the increase of muscular strength are the best means against accidents and injuries of all kinds that endanger people on a daily basis. In addition, all-round athleticism increases the body’s resistance to diseases of all kinds and at the same time increases the feeling of being alive. From this point of view, constant, properly guided athletic activity means prevention of injuries and diseases.
