Rotator-cuff injury can be career-threatening for golfers
Golf is one of the few sports that do not need as much physical fitness as sports like football do, but there are certain body parts that suffer multiple injuries, keeping golfers from putting their maximum time and effort on the course.
Rotator-cuff injury is one of the most debilitating injuries in the sport of golf, which usually hurts golfers and they end up staying off the course for months.
Rotator-cuff, which plays a pivotal role in helping a player make a good swing, strokes and even putts, has emerged as the most sensitive problem for golfers.
Sports like hockey and baseball have been notorious for rotator-cuff injuries, as they requite players or pitchers to use their maximum strength of arm — both right and left.
However, the same holds true for golf too. It may be quite surprising for golf fans to know that rotator-cuff injury is one of the prime culprits behind putting a golfer off the course.
Back in the days, golfers would not take physical exercises seriously, but now with every passing day, players are becoming more and more concerned about their physical strength.
Now, the growing numbers of golfers of all ages—either professional or amateur, tend to pay attention to what their health advisors say. In order to remain agile on the course, players spend time in gym and other health centres to stay out of troubles like
rotator-cuff injury. But for some golfers — particularly those who spend most of the time on the course or who don't pay attention to muscular exercises — the injuries usually come at a price and sometimes put the player out of the sport for good.
With hundreds of golf-related training centres cropping up just about everywhere, it has become quite easy for a player to diagnose the injury — something necessary to know whether the problem is acute or chronic.
Since shoulder is the part that gets exhausted the most while a player is performing on the course, things start to worsen and he/she usually ends up leaving his/her career.
Rotator-cuff injury typically occurs due to extra pressure on muscles and tendons in the shoulder. Especially when a player makes a swing, the shoulder undergoes severe jerks and pressure, which could be career-threatening if not addressed at the right time.
The debilitating injury has been responsible for sidelining several professional players in the history of golf. Most of the players who have suffered rotator-cuff injury in their career had to spend weeks off the course.
Dr. James Gladstone, who is associate professor of orthopaedics at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, said in one of his interviews: “Anytime you have repetitive overuse, when you're swinging the same way more or less," you can risk getting hurt”.
“The first steps are to back off what you're doing ice and take some anti-inflammatory medication such as Advil or Aleve and stretch," Dr Gladstone said.
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