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Comprehensive guide to assessment and management of a condition.
Sprinters and jumpers tear hamstrings, distance runners strain calves, and the rectus femoris sits between them in the acceleration and take-off events. Knowing the athlete's event tells you where to look before they describe a single symptom.
Strength training has a lower injury rate than most sports, and traditional resistance training is the safest of the weight-training methods. That matters, because many lifters believe lifting is inherently dangerous.
Golf carries one of the lowest injury rates per hour of any sport and one of the highest lifetime injury prevalence, because players accumulate exposure over decades. The swing loads the lumbar spine in combined rotation and extension, and the lead arm takes the impact.
Cycling injuries are almost entirely of gradual onset, which makes them a load problem rather than an incident to reconstruct from a history.
Tennis puts a lot of repeated stress on the shoulder and elbow, because a player swings their arm hundreds of times in a match. Meanwhile, the legs take the strain of sprinting, stopping, and changing direction between shots.
