High impact sports, such as basketball, soccer, running, football, cricket, netball and indeed any sport involving the use of your feet, can all lead to injuries requiring specialist treatment. It is easy to injure your feet while playing sport as the forces between your feet and the ground are amplified during high impact activity.
Prevalent sports injuries include shin splints, Runner’s knee, Archilles tendonitis and stress fractures. Sports people may also complain of thickened nails that can sometimes become ingrown or get bruises under the nail from repetitive trauma.
Treatment
Treatment for sports podiatric injuries involves biomechanical assessment to look at your posture, strength, flexibility and movement, and an analysis of how the movement of your feet affects your lower limbs.
Evaluation of sport shoes, stretches, strengthening exercises and physical therapies, and fitting orthotics are ways which your podiatrist may address your injury.
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