Golf Sports Medicine

Many golf injuries occur due to improper grip and swing mechanics, but a lack of fitness and flexibility also contribute to the most common golf injuries and pain. These injuries typically occur in the soft tissues (muscles, ligaments, tendons) and joints of the upper body (back, elbow, wrist and shoulder). Read the rest of this entry »

Due to the commitment that the body has the practice of golf, as we have been discussing lately, physiotherapy charges a very important role in the life of a golfer.

It is important to understand that each treatment depends exclusively on the person, hence the operator specializing in golf, has the power to put together a personalized and individual treatment to optimize the possibilities.

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Yesterday we spoke of physiotherapy applied to golf, and muscular-skeletal examination, something that increasingly occupies the largest space in the inner world of this sport.

There are different treatments to properly prepare the body for the practice of a sport that involves especiíficos musculoskeletal problems should not take precautions.

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We’ve reviewed quite a different intense physical complications to which we can expose the practice of golf, but there is one that is characteristic of this sport and is called golfer’s elbow.

Its technical name is epicondylitis, and it is a form of tendinitis that attacks in the elbow area, which is manifested with inflammation of muscle attachments on the sides of the elbow. Read the rest of this entry »