Sports Injuries

Sports Injuries

For many athletes, winning is the ultimate goal, whether it's a local competition or an Olympic event. Winning can be breaking a personal or even world record.

The road to victory, however, can hide some dangers. In order to surpass himself, the athlete often pushes and strains his body. Also, there will always be minor injuries, since these are also part of the athlete's life.

The body needs early diagnosis and proper treatment so that it always remains healthy and strengthens properly.

For example, some of the injuries that an athlete may face and which we undertake to diagnose and treat are:

  • Bruises

    The most common injury in people involved in sports activities is muscle tissue strain. The most common strains are lower limb muscle strains, such as hamstring strains, and calf strains. Football players, runners, and athletes in general are more likely to suffer strains. There is no differentiation in age groups. The most common cause of a strain is local injury to the muscle or tendon area near the joints.

  • Shoulder Injury (Shoulder Arthroscopy)

    The shoulder has the greatest range of motion of any joint in the human body, as it is not stabilized by the bones that form it, unlike other joints (such as the hip). Instead, both the integrity and movement of the joint are determined primarily by the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

  • Knee Injury (knee arthroscopy)

    The knee is one of the large joints of the human body with a complex structure, which is subjected to significant pressures and force variations during our daily activities and is often subject to injuries and alterations. At their points of contact, the above bones are covered by a layer of cartilage, which, due to its smooth texture, allows the frictionless displacement of the bones and, consequently, the movement of the joint. Knee arthroscopy is performed in a properly equipped operating room under general, spinal or in some cases local anesthesia.

  • Ischial Injury (ischial arthroscopy)

    Potential candidates for arthroscopic hip surgery are all patients who have had hip or groin pain for more than six weeks and it does not improve with other conservative measures. However, great care is needed on the part of the surgeon, as patients with diseases of the femoral head (femoral head necrosis, transient osteoporosis) or very advanced hip osteoarthritis are excluded.

  • Muscle hematoma

    A hematoma is a collection of blood in a specific area of the body, accompanied by swelling at that location. The blood accumulates due to a rupture in the wall of a blood vessel, an artery, a vein, or a capillary. A hematoma can occur anywhere in the body. Regardless of its specific characteristics, a hematoma is always an accumulation of thick blood outside a vessel.

- What is arthroscopy?

Arthroscopy is a procedure in which the surgery is performed through holes of a few millimeters that are opened around the joint and not through small or large incisions in the overlying skin. Through these holes, the orthoscope is inserted, which offers direct vision and magnification, as well as the appropriate tools (e.g. sutures, anchors) to check both the joint and the adjacent structures and to apply the appropriate treatment.

Unlike open surgical methods, during arthroscopy the introduction of the necessary thin surgical instruments is done through very small incisions in the skin, a few millimeters long.