BreatheFit Fitness & Wellness Hub Q&A Injury Prevention & Recovery

Sports injury prevention methods do not include which of the following

Asked by:Freyr

Asked on:Apr 07, 2026 12:45 PM

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  • Lisa Lisa

    Apr 07, 2026

    The answer is "Forcibly persisting in exercise after injury to improve local tolerance." Not only is this not a conventional means of preventing sports injuries, but it will greatly increase the probability of serious injuries.

    I have been working as a volunteer guard in an urban running group for almost three years. Last month I met a young man who was a sophomore in college. Before starting the half marathon, he said that his ankles were a little sore. His friends around him yelled, "It hurts because I haven't moved around. It will be fine if I warm up for running." He gritted his teeth and held on to finish 21 kilometers. When I reached the finish line, my feet could not touch the ground. I was sent to the doctor for an MRI and it was found that it was a bone contusion of the talus and a partial tear of the lateral ligament. It was originally just a slight fatigue reaction caused by insufficient warm-up, but it suddenly turned into an injury that required three months of rest. The school sports meeting in the second half of the year was ruined.

    Many people mention "anti-pain training" which is very popular in the rehabilitation circle. They think that since you can train with pain, then it is not wrong to carry it hard - this is actually a complete confusion of the concept. Anti-pain training requires a professional rehabilitation practitioner to evaluate the pain level throughout the process and strictly control the exercise load. On the premise of targeted adjustment of movement patterns, progressive rehabilitation intervention for the injured part is essentially therapeutic training after the injury occurs. It is not the same thing as the "hard support" that ordinary people carry out without any professional guidance, let alone the prevention category of avoiding risks in advance.

    We usually talk about dynamic warm-up, correction of movement patterns, wearing of protective gear, and adjusting exercise load according to physical condition. These are serious injury prevention methods. To put it bluntly, prevention is to put safety patches on the body in advance. You can't wait for the hole in the cloth to be ripped and then pull the cloth hard. How can it be called early prevention, right?