When playing basketball, it is easy to have various sports injuries, including when catching or throwing the ball, it is easy to sprain the wrist due to excessive force, strong impact and other factors, resulting in pain. So how to play basketball wrist sprain pain?
Stop playing
In case of a sprained wrist while playing basketball, stop playing immediately and try to keep your wrist in a more comfortable position. Do not continue to use the injured hand to force, so as not to cause a second injury.
Check the injury
After stopping the sport, check the injury of the sprained wrist, check if there is a wound and where the painful part is. If the painful swelling in the wrist area occurs after hitting the hand to support the ground during basketball, and strong pain occurs after moving the wrist or pressing the swollen area, it is recommended to seek medical examination and treatment in a timely manner.
Cold compress
If the wrist sprain is relatively light, can be handled by themselves, to promptly use an ice pack or cold towel on the sprained part of the cold compress 20-30 minutes, can make capillary constriction, help relieve the wrist sprain part of the swelling.
Hot compresses
After 24 hours or 48 hours of wrist sprain, you can apply a hot compress to the sprained part, which can promote blood circulation and play a role in reducing swelling and pain.
Massage
After 24 hours of playing basketball sprained wrist pain, you can not massage the injured part, and so on 24 hours or 48 hours later, you can gently massage the injury. If you can not press, it is best to find a professional doctor to carry out, do not blindly massage, to avoid aggravating the wrist swelling and pain.
Plaster
The sprained wrist can be put on the swollen and painful area with pain relief, blood circulation and blood stasis ointment. However, this is also required after 24 hours of treatment, just sprained can not be plastered, easy to aggravate the swelling and pain.
Rest and recuperation
After a sprained wrist, do not continue to play basketball, you should wait until the injury is completely healed before going back to sports, in the early stages of the sprain is to avoid excessive force on the sprained part.
How to avoid playing basketball sprained wrist
1, do a good job of warming up, is possible to a certain extent to avoid the occurrence of sports injuries. Before playing basketball activity wrist, fingers all joint parts are active open.
2, enhance wrist strength, usually more sports exercise, you can also borrow a grip strength device to practice to enhance the strength of the fingers and wrist.
3, the amount of strength. When playing basketball if you are hit and fall, if you can not use your arms to support to keep smooth, do not force yourself must do, that wrist is very easy to sprain.
4, wear playing basketball protective gear, like arm pads, elbow pads and other protective gear, can play a certain protective role.
