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Treating Sports Injuries: Part 1

Summary & Participants

Safe exercise will prevent most injuries. But if you happen to suffer an injury, what can you do to get back in action as quickly as possible? Join our panel of experts for a discussion of injury treatment, from strains and sprains to more serious problems.

Medically Reviewed On: July 08, 2008

Webcast Transcript

DAVID FOLK THOMAS: Welcome to our webcast. I'm David Folk Thomas. Are you like me? Do you like to keep in shape and workout, and hope you don't hurt yourself when you're doing it? Well, there are a lot of right ways to work out. There are certainly a lot of wrong ways to work out. Even if you're doing it the right way, there is no guarantee you're not going to get injured in the process, and if you're doing it the wrong way, there is a pretty good chance you will get injured.

We're going to tell you what to do if you do get an injury while working out, whether it be playing tennis, playing basketball or working out at the gym with weights.

Joining me are a couple of experts on the subject. On my left is Jim Ramsay. He's the Athletic Trainer for the New York Rangers hockey team.

Next to Jim is Dr. Jonathan Glashow. He's a sport medicine orthopedic surgeon at Lennox Hill Hospital in New York City. He's also a consultant for the New York Rangers, as well as numerous Olympic athletes. Gentlemen, thanks for joining us here on the webcast.

Let's start with you Jonathan. Injuries. What's the first thing to do? Give us a common injury that can come from working out?

JONATHAN GLASHOW, MD: Injuries are an inevitable part of exercising and working out. We just try to minimize them in both frequency and intensity. A very common injury is a knee pain brought on, for instance, after a leg workout exercise.

DAVID FOLK THOMAS: You're feeling a strain or something?

JONATHAN GLASHOW, MD: After working out you have pain, you have trouble going down the stairs, you have trouble sitting in a movie for any extended period of time. When you sit at the restaurant, when you get up the knee creaks and it's painful. You don't know what to do.

DAVID FOLK THOMAS: You know when a cold front is coming in, so to speak. You can predict the weather.

JONATHAN GLASHOW, MD: Right.

DAVID FOLK THOMAS: So whatever kind of injuries are there? You are with the Rangers, so what other kind of injuries, outside the ones where they're getting clocked into the boards by a member of the Philadelphia Flyers. What kind of injuries are you seeing from working out?

JIM RAMSAY: What we'll commonly see is a muscle strain. What it involves basically there is that the muscle becomes damaged. You overload the muscle by using improper form or technique. That's when you commonly hear the pop sound, or you basically feel something that tears in the muscle. Later on you'll notice some swelling or maybe some discoloration in that. Muscle strains a very common injury in weight training or riding the bike. Anything in terms of the fitness facility.

DAVID FOLK THOMAS: The difference again between a sprain and a strain, Jonathan?

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