Safety Awareness Practices and Injury Prevention of Athletes - Maed Alcantara - Bog

Sport helps to strengthen important values such as team spirit and solidarity and contributes to personal development and fulfillment. Higher safety level helps to promote physical activity and therefore combining physical activity promotion and injury prevention will increase the resulting health benefits. With every type of sport, there are different kinds of injuries Sports injuries are injuries that most commonly occur during sports or exercise. Some sports injuries result from accidents, others are due to poor training practices, improper equipment and lack of conditioning, insufficient warm-up and stretching.Coaching is in key element to prevent an athlete¿s injury. The coach can teach useful methods for an athlete of injury prevention. Outer conditions for injury prevention are proper equipment, hygiene, and training circumstances. Inner conditions are food and psychological training.