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Seven Frequent Injuries Golfers Tend to Suffer
from: Maxx Golf GuidesIt's unfortunate, but golfers tend to suffer from quite a number of injuries. These include:
1. Lower Back Pain: This back pain in golfers is often disc-related, mechanically related, or caused by a fracture or other problems. It's quite often caused by how a golfer swings the club and can be identified by the symptoms of pain, stiffness, muscle spasms and nerve irritation (numbness, pain, or weakness in the legs). One solution is to slow down at the top of the golf swing, and always lift heavy objects, such as a bag of golf clubs, with your legs. Treatment for this pain includes rest, medication, therapy, bracing, cortisone, or surgery.
2. Golfer’s Elbow (a.k.a. Tennis Elbow): This is an inflammation, soreness or pain that occurs on the inside of the upper arm near the elbow. More commonly, however, the pain ends up occurring on the outside of the upper arm. The pain is the greatest at the top of the swing and upon impact. One solution is to switch to graphite shafts and low compression golf balls, which will help decrease elbow strain.
Also, when possible, you should practice on real turf instead of rubber mats and you'll want to ease up on grip pressure and loosen up on the elbows while you swing. You can also slow down the backswing, and smooth the transition between the backswing and the downswing. Likewise, try to avoid contact of the ball with trees, rocks, sprinklers and other obstructions, and tee-up the ball on fairway shots. Don’t release your hands too soon at the top of the backswing, and don't decelerate the club before impact. You can also obtain medication for the pain of golfer’s elbow (or Tennis elbow) and get plenty of rest, or if necessary you may require surgery.
3. Shoulder Pain: Usually this pain includes Rotator cuff tendonitis, tear, impingement, A-C joint arthritis, instability and scapular lag. The symptoms include pain in shoulder or upper arm at various phases of the golf swing, and night pain. One solution is to slow down the backswing to reduce stress on the shoulders. If you need treatment you can find medication and you may require extra rest to let this situation heal, especially if it gets serious.
4. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: The symptoms include numbness of the fingers, hand weakness and clumsiness. Treatments include rest, medication, splinting and surgery. Some solutions to combat this are to make sure the club handle grips are replaced regularly and to consider either larger or softer grips. In addition, you need to reduce the pressure on the club handle.
5. De Quervain’s Tendonitis: This ailment is characterized by pain, swelling and tenderness of the wrist near the base of the thumb. This pain usually occurs at the left wrist. To deal with this problem in the future you'll want to avoid extreme cocking of the left wrist when you reach the top of the backswing. You don't want to loosen your grip too soon. Another ailment similar to this would be arthritis at the base of the thumb. In order to know for sure you can have your thumb x-rayed.
6. Knee Pain: Symptoms include pain, clicking, or swelling of the knee, which is also aggravated by squatting and walking. Treatments for these symptoms include rest, medication, arthroscopic surgery (if it's a meniscus tear), total joint replacement surgery (if the cause is arthritis), injection treatments, bracing, and therapy. One solution is switching to a spike-less shoe to decrease stresses from twisting of the knee. You should practice and play with short irons while recovering from a knee surgery or injury. This will minimize stress to the knees. You're advised to also be careful not to return to full swinging too soon after knee injury, especially after surgery.
7. Wrist Impaction Syndrome: This is usually characterized by pain and tenderness on the top of the wrist, usually on the right side at the top of the backswing. The possible treatments for this condition include rest, splinting, cortisone, or sometimes surgery. A solution to this problem would be to slow down the backswing to minimize right wrist extension, at the top of the backswing.
These situations aren't pleasant for golfers, but can be corrected. In most cases, golfers are able to return to their normal game.
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