Prevention programs in competitive sports

The cruciate ligament injury in soccer certainly represents the best researched and documented sports injury due to its presence in the media as well as its frequency. However, it is exemplary for many other sports injuries and we must assume that prevention programs can also lead to similar injury reduction in other body regions.

According to current studies, about 50 per cent of all serious knee injuries in competitive sports can be prevented by prevention programmes.

However, prevention also means accompanying the biological aging process with its effects on the human musculoskeletal system. Certain risk factors favor faster joint wear and tear, the premature breakdown of muscles or a more catabolic (degradation) metabolic state. The relationship of trust between you and your treating physicians should enable us to discuss even "unpleasant topics" such as weight, diet or lack of / improper exercise together. This is the only way to lay the foundation for "your very own personal prevention program".

We currently support the soccer club Bahlinger SC and the ice hockey club EHC Freiburg.

Sports medicine examination and consultation

Every active athlete, whether recreational or professional, needs regular support for performance optimization or injury prevention. Thanks to our many years of experience in this field, as well as the semi-annual sports fitness testing of our club athletes, we have mastered standardized testing procedures for evaluating your profile. Adapted to the type of sport, time in your career, injuries and many other factors, together we put together your very own personal test battery in order to uncover possible weak points as well as to promote your individual strengths.

Primary prevention of sports injuries

The common goal must be to drastically reduce the number of serious sports injuries. Based on an analysis of the cause of frequent sports injuries, it is possible to integrate exercises to stabilize the musculoskeletal system into everyday training and thus help protect against incorrect loading. The best therapy for an injury is to prevent it.

Secondary prevention after surgical treatment

In the event of an injury, we should do everything possible to ensure that it remains a one-off traumatic event (secondary prevention). A twisting (distortion) of the ankle and knee joint is often the beginning of a whole series of painful restrictions of the lower extremity. After successful conservative or surgical treatment, the weakest link in the chain must become fully functional again and the neighbouring structures also need expert support for complete healing.

Club support

In club care, it is the task of the functional team of coaches, therapists and doctors to work together on the topic of prevention, make it accessible to the players and develop fixed algorithms. As these activities are generally not remunerated outside the professional arena, a great deal of individual initiative and voluntary work is required. With the FIFA+ program, the Stop X program of the German Society for Knee Surgery or the injury prevention program of the VBG, a wide variety of protocols, also accessible online, are available.

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