How to prevent and treat common sports injuries in children and adolescents

  Children and adolescents as a special group, their favorite sports have a big difference with other people, they are eager for new things and easily impulsive. Their favorite sports are basketball, soccer, badminton, table tennis, roller skating, ice skating, skateboarding and street dance, etc. And the injuries produced by these sports have their own characteristics.  Basketball: the most concentrated injuries are in the waist, ankle and knee, mainly due to falls, jumping up to grab the ball, landing incorrectly, the field is too slippery, and most injuries are in the meniscus and joint capsule ligaments.  Soccer: ankle sprains are the most common, followed by muscle strains in the front and back of the thigh, and again the meniscus, ligaments and patella of the knee and articular cartilage injuries.  Badminton: large lumbar mobility, lumbar sprain when vigorously pumping the ball, repeated friction injuries to the shoulder, and rupture of the Achilles tendon when jumping up.  Table tennis: mainly concentrated in waist, shoulder, knee, ankle and wrist injuries.  Roller skating, skating, skateboarding: most commonly wrist, hip, knee and ankle injuries.  Street dance: Most often seen in lumbar, hip and ankle injuries.  Overall, injuries to these body parts include muscle strains, lumbar sprains, meniscal tears, capsular ligament or tendon tears, tendinopathy or tendonitis, articular cartilage, epiphyseal injuries, diaphyseal fractures, dislocations, epiphyseal osteochondritis, and exfoliative osteochondritis. The main manifestations are joint instability, soreness, swelling, strangulation, popping, deformity, and discomfort.  How to deal with children and adolescents after sports injuries at home and personally No matter what kind of sports injury, correct and timely on-site first aid treatment can achieve the purpose of delaying the course of the disease, reducing pain, reducing disability and complications, and saving lives. The PRICE principles should be followed according to the conditions at home and at the scene: Protection: Protect the injured limb to avoid re-injury.  Rest: Rest the injured part from activity for at least 24-48 hours.  Ice: ice, cold compress, the injured area can be used ice or ice bags, the skin and ice can be separated by a towel, each time compress 15 minutes to avoid frostbite, or use a towel soaked in cold water, slightly squeeze out too much water, folded into a block compress on the injury for 20-30 minutes, 6-8 times a day. If there is a special freezing analgesic spray can be sprayed directly on the injury to form a thin layer of liquid.  Compression: Compression, using cloth tape, cloth, towel or bandage with slight pressure to wrap the injury, not too tight, so as not to cause nerve compression and blood return obstruction.  Elevation: elevation, whether sitting or lying, the injured area should be placed on the pillow elevation, increase blood flow to the affected area to reduce swelling, generally need the injured limb above the heart level.  Acute closed soft tissue injury, is the injury epidermis without cracks, such as contusions, joint ligament sprains, early muscle strains, etc. Early 48 hours of cold compresses, you can apply local pain ointment, etc., do not rub and massage. Lumbar sprains are soft tissue tears caused by excessive stretching of the waist, the injured person feels a cracking pain in the waist, it is best to lie on a hard bed, if necessary, a pillow under the waist, treatment can be immediately cold compress pain, bundle wide belt waist protection. Skin friction caused by abrasions, small abrasions commonly used topical medication with 2% tincture of iodine or iodine volt are available, the trauma is larger appropriate to use iodine volt, should not use disinfectants containing alcohol, otherwise it will aggravate the pain, the use of topical medication without bandages. If there are stones, soot and other foreign objects embedded in the skin and deep skin fissures to the hospital to clear the wound treatment. Due to tight shoes, ground reasons often make the foot blisters, blood blisters, available tincture of iodine or iodophor disinfection with sterile needles, sterile cotton ball squeeze clean, sterile gauze bandage. When the nose bleeding can sit down head back, nasal cavity forcefully filled with gauze or cotton balls, breathing through the mouth, nasal bridge cold compress is generally quickly stop bleeding.