Triathlete Injuries

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• Running Injuries

Most Common Triathlon Injuries

Typically, the types of injuries triathletes deal with are overuse injuries.

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Triathlon training repetitively stresses muscles, tendons, and the tissues around joints and bones. This continuous stress produces repetitive microtrauma.

Overuse injuries result from the body's inability to keep up with repair of the damage created by repetitive microtrauma. The body's tissue eventually breaks down -- resulting in pain, inflammation, and weakness.

Ignoring the pain and inflammation and continuing to train will lead to macrotrauma and disruption of the tendon, muscle or bone.


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Most Common Triathlete Injuries

How To Treat Triathlete Injuries

Treatment for most triathlon injuries includes:

• Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation (RICE)
  
  
• Massage, and stretching
  
  
• Contributing biomechanical factors: identification and correction
   
• Orthoses to correct leg length discrepancies or foot deformities
   
• Professional evaluation/correction of running gait and cycle position eg Physio or Podiatrist
   
• Daily program of core training and stretching to increase flexibility
  
  
• Preventative or Recovery Massage Therapy to stretch and loosen muscle issues

• Strengthening program to correct any muscle imbalances

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