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Question
"Prevention is better than cure." Elaborate on this sentence in the context of the sports injuries.
Solution
- "Prevention is better than cure" is a fundamental principle in sports injury management, emphasizing the significance of taking proactive actions to avoid injuries rather than dealing with the effects after they occur.
- In sports, injuries can have serious short- and long-term consequences for an athlete's performance, health, and career.
- By focusing on prevention, athletes can maintain continuous training, compete fully, and avoid the physical pain and psychological stress that injuries often cause.
- There are many ways of preventing injuries. Some of them are warming up and cooling down, maintaining the fitness of the participants, using the correct equipment and maintaining them, having proper knowledge of the rules of the game or sports, wearing the recommended protective gear, resting between workouts, practicing under the supervision of coach or teacher, ensuring proper training of skill and technique and keeping safety facilities.
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