Joint Preparation and Injury Prevention

Hello, 

I wanted to know about joint preparation and injury prevention.

We see a lot of injurys happening in weight lifting , in gymnastics doing their spinning routines in the olympics etç. How can one prevent this from happening? Is there any way to know if a injury is going to happen? Any way to know if i can do a certain exercise / lift a certain amount of weight without risk of injury? Or even with the best preparation an injury can still happens?

Injury prevention it is all about to follow a proper progression of a particular upper body/lower body/core exercise in order to stimulates connective tissue adaptation so that you can manage more load. Mobility improves the range of motion available so that in case of bad execution the brain is prepared to work over more deep range of motion, it also improves the ability of muscles that stabilize the joint to be strong enough to hold the bones in the correct position through the entire range of motion.

Body needs to be specifically prepared to hold certain amount of load, on both range of motion available, active range of motion stabilization and connective tissue conditioning.

Failing on one of the development of these fieds means fail on injury prevention.

4 hours ago, Alessandro Mainente said:

Injury prevention it is all about to follow a proper progression of a particular upper body/lower body/core exercise in order to stimulates connective tissue adaptation so that you can manage more load. Mobility improves the range of motion available so that in case of bad execution the brain is prepared to work over more deep range of motion, it also improves the ability of muscles that stabilize the joint to be strong enough to hold the bones in the correct position through the entire range of motion.

Body needs to be specifically prepared to hold certain amount of load, on both range of motion available, active range of motion stabilization and connective tissue conditioning.

Failing on one of the development of these fieds means fail on injury prevention.

Yeah, i know this, but what about injuries that happens in olympic athlets presentations? So it should be assumed that they were not prepared enough?

If you are alive and have a pulse, you will get an injury; of some sort. There is no way around this.

The quality of preparation, however, dictates both the capacity and speed of recovery.

4 hours ago, Leandro Santos said:

Yeah, i know this, but what about injuries that happens in olympic athlets presentations? So it should be assumed that they were not prepared enough?

When you're going for a world record, with the world watching, you need to try things that push the envelope of what you are capable of. This often results in not-exactly-perfect form and structure. Being more 'prepared' as you use it here will allow a certain amount of leeway Eg) me conducting any regular fitness activity such as Oly lifting or Crossfit wods and bumping through with atrocious and inefficient form on enthusiasm and guts, and getting away with it.

In regular training, not competition, injury from insufficient preparation should only come up in exceptionally unlucky situations like a slip of a hand forcing a dismount in a terrible position, for the simple reason that properly progressive training would not expose you to strains you are not prepared for  losing your perfect snatch form from nerves and sustaining an injury from it represents physical preparation insufficent to mitigate the difference between correct and what was actually conducted, not (necessarily) insufficient to complete the lift.

18 hours ago, Jon Douglas said:

When you're going for a world record, with the world watching, you need to try things that push the envelope of what you are capable of. This often results in not-exactly-perfect form and structure. Being more 'prepared' as you use it here will allow a certain amount of leeway Eg) me conducting any regular fitness activity such as Oly lifting or Crossfit wods and bumping through with atrocious and inefficient form on enthusiasm and guts, and getting away with it.

In regular training, not competition, injury from insufficient preparation should only come up in exceptionally unlucky situations like a slip of a hand forcing a dismount in a terrible position, for the simple reason that properly progressive training would not expose you to strains you are not prepared for  losing your perfect snatch form from nerves and sustaining an injury from it represents physical preparation insufficent to mitigate the difference between correct and what was actually conducted, not (necessarily) insufficient to complete the lift.

 

Well explained Jon, thanks for your answer :).

On 9/30/2016 at 7:03 PM, Leandro Santos said:

Yeah, i know this, but what about injuries that happens in olympic athlets presentations? So it should be assumed that they were not prepared enough?

We are talking about people repeating a skill 1 hundred times every days? with conditioning and strength training everyday? training 8 hours a day? their activity and their preparation is managed to reduce injury but sometime accident happens.

rarely gymnasts get an injury due to strength training or conditioning, something that on the contrary happens so often on people who try to emulate gymnastics.