What is not included in sports injury prevention measures?

The answer is clear. All remedial injury treatments, speculative practices that violate the rules of sports, and erroneous "anti-injury experiences" spread among the people do not fall into the category of sports injury prevention.

I have been recovering from exercise for almost 8 years, and I have seen too many people treat these wrong practices as "prevention." A while ago, there was a young man who was preparing to run a half marathon. He usually worked 9 to 5 and did not exercise at all. He only started to run 10 kilometers a day a week before the race, and he was still very convincing. It was said that "sharpening weapons before battle can improve endurance and prevent running injuries." However, only 5 kilometers into the race, the iliotibial band hurt so much that he couldn't stand still. A slight synovial effusion was already present. You said that he overdrafted in this temporary attack, which was not prevention. He was obviously actively looking for injuries.

There are also many people who regard emergency treatment after injury as a type of prevention. If you twist your foot and apply heat immediately and rub away congestion, you can prevent more serious injuries. This completely confuses the logic of the sequence - prevention is always a pre-emptive action before the injury occurs. Waiting for the injury to occur before taking action is called remediation, which is not at all related to prevention. Two years ago, there was a kid who was playing in a high school league. He sprained his ankle while grabbing a rebound. He thought, "Just rub it on the sidelines and move around a little before you can go back to playing. Don't let minor injuries or major injuries delay the game."

Oh, by the way, there is actually a lot of controversy about the use of protective gear. Some people think that as long as you wear knee and wrist braces, it is a preventive measure. There are also many professionals who object to this statement - if your own muscle strength is insufficient, you must rely on protective gear to support the stability of the joints. Long-term wearing will make the surrounding muscles useless and make you more susceptible to injury.； Not to mention that many people wear protective gear that is completely inappropriate. They wear thin knee pads for running when playing volleyball, and tight waist pads for weightlifting when running marathons. They spend a lot of money, but in fact they have no protective effect at all. The use of such ineffective protective gear is not actually a serious preventive measure.

To be honest, if you just shake your arms and legs twice before exercising, it counts as a warm-up. Don’t kid yourself that it counts as prevention. Last time, Aunt Zhang from our community square dance team would shake her neck and twist her waist twice before each start. As a result, the head-shaking movements directly stretched her cervical spine, which took less than half a month to heal. That kind of formal warm-up that does not even activate the muscles is just a psychological comfort and has nothing to do with prevention.