If you ever played football at an amateur or professional level, having just one injury can literally end your career. Not only would affect your football career, you may have some troubles doing important activities of daily living. To ensure that you don't get any of these injuries, your team or coach should introduce an injury prevention program.
Some players think that this program is a waste of time and better things can be done instead of performing repetitive Activities. In fact, studies have shown that a program for injury prevention reduces drastically the number of injuries by 80%. And the reduction of injuries, the program will also save money in terms of health bill costs and time.
An injury prevention program should consist of the following things:
Warm ups
It is important that players warm up their muscles and joints before any high impact activities. A quick two minutes jogging around thefootball field can increase the amount of circulation to the muscles and therefore increasing the extensibility of the muscle fibers. The incidence of muscle strain and sprain are reduced because the tissues can be stretched at a greater range.
Drink Water
Make sure you are properly hydrated before going into a game. If it's really hot outside, drink more than it is necessary because sometimes you don't realize you lose so much fluids.
Stretching
Stretch all your major muscle groups like your thighs, shoulders and back muscles.
Warm Down
After a workout or a game, warm down. Do not just sit down and relax immediately after the game. Your muscles will have some muscle by-products such as lactic acid circulating around your system. Try to help the body to flush it from your system by walking around for a few minutes.
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