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Too Much Pain, No Gain: Avoiding Sports Injuries

Summary & Participants

To maintain a healthy body, exercise is essential. But working out can do more harm than good if you don't prevent injuries. Our panel of experts will discuss how to get the most out of your exercise while keeping your body in one piece.

Medically Reviewed On: May 07, 2008

Webcast Transcript

JIM RAMSAY: Excellent goal tender for the Rangers. He had ACL reconstructions. He's doing great. Then we also have a lot of strains, the muscular injury. A lot of players today in hockey are having what we call athletic pubalgia. A big word. Basically, it means that they're injuring or straining the lower oblique muscles in their stomach. Why? We haven't figured that out yet. There are numerous studies. But we do see a lot of major muscle and ligament injuries in hockey.

DAVID FOLK THOMAS: When you're setting out to prevent injuries if you're going to the gym and you have the mindset, "I'm going to do this right," are injury prevention techniques more important for those gradual injuries? What was the big word you used?

JIM RAMSAY: You liked that one?

DAVID FOLK THOMAS: Yes, I liked that word. But it seems like for a hockey team, it's hard to prevent an injury if a guy's smashing into the boards, so to speak. I imagine you can try to build the muscles up enough to negate that. But overall, for those gradual straining, spraining injuries, is that where this is most important?

JIM RAMSAY: I think it's for both, Dave. Really, I think you can prepare yourself and your body for the impact of a hit or you can prepare yourself for weight training. I think there are several key points. One being a gradual increase in weight. The first I should say is warmup. I think far too many people, maybe like yourself, run to the gym, don't have time to do that.

DAVID FOLK THOMAS: I do it correctly.

JONATHAN GLASHOW, MD: They don't warm up, they go in, rush to the weights, do a far too heavy weight first off and [MAKES UGH SOUND]. Especially first thing in the morning. I think most people run into trouble when they try to do big muscle groups first thing in the morning. I don't know what Jim thinks. But in a lot of the gyms you see people doing heavy leg exercise at 6:30 am. Things happen when you lie flat all night and you don't warm up and your muscles aren't ready to take that load. So a good warmup is key and it prevents a lot of injury. Stretching, which all of us hate to do because it doesn't show, but it actually prevents a lot of problems down the line.

DAVID FOLK THOMAS: What you just mentioned is something that I've always thought of. A lot of people work out early in the morning before they go to work. I've never enjoyed that and one reason I have told people is because I feel my body has to naturally wake up during the day. Just walking around the city or going to work. Your muscles are more ready for that. Do you have your players train in the morning or the evening? Does it matter to you?

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