What can be done to avoid re-injury from sports?

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Jay Dicharry
Director, UVA Health System
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu  
434-243-5622

Jay Dicharry MPT, CSCS, is the Director of the SPEED Performance Clinic and the Motion Analysis Lab Coordinator at the University of Virginia . Originally from New Orleans , LA , Jay received his BS from the University of Southern Mississippi in Exercise Physiology in 1997. In 2001, Jay completed the Master of Physical Therapy degree at Louisiana State University Medical Center . He has pursued additional course work in exercise physiology and wilderness medicine, and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength & Conditioning Association and a certified coach through both the United States Track and Field Association and the United States Cycling Federation. Jay has a competitive history in swimming, triathlon, cycling, and running events on both the local and national level. He serves as the Coach of the Masters Swimming program for the City of Charlottesville . Jay has helped to organize and presented at the annual UVA Running Medicine conference and has been published in a medical review text. He has been an invited lecturer in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency and the Exercise Physiology department at the University of Virginia. Jay's research and treatment interests lie in the biomechanics and treatment of athletes. Jay is the husband of his wife Asha and the servant of his loyal dog, Turbo.

What can be done to avoid re-injury from sports?

In this video, Jay Dicharry, director of the SPEED Performance Clinic and the Motion Analysis Lab Coordinator at the University of Virginia Health System, discusses what can be done to avoid re-injury from sports.

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Host: What can be done to avoid re-injury from sports?

Jay Dicharry: The biggest thing we can do to avoid re-injury is to look at what caused the original injury in the first place. Was it a mistake in increasing our training volume too quickly? Was it an issue of changing our footwear? Was an issue in following somewhere else's training program? We should have been sticking to our own type of program. The idea is you want to figure out what the original factor was that caused over-stress to your body. One example can be found in some of these typical ankle sprains. A lot of us have sprained an ankle at one point in time and we tend to let that heal and we think it will go better and it is safe for us and it's important to realize that while the tissues around the ankle tend to heal pretty well, one of the thing that is tremendously impacted is our balance ability and so that lack of being able to balance and control our foot and ankle tend to lead to us to re-sprain every sprain. So practicing single leg balance exercises has been shown to have tremendous success in decreasing the tendency for a previous injury down the line.

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