One way in preventing injury is Stretching exercise
. This will help to cope with the unexpected pain or injury that we experience similar spasms especially of the athletes.
There are many website that can help you to know about the Stretching exercise and one of those is these. Stretching is form of physical exercise to improve our muscles elasticity and muscle tone to reaffirm comfortable. It also used therapeutically to alleviate the cramps. The athletes make their stretching before and after the exercise to reduce the injury and increase their performance.
The two types of stretching are static and ballistic stretching. The static is stretch positions were reaching gently and slowly and held for a given time (6-60 seconds). While the in ballistic, it performed with bouncing movement and carries a high risk of muscles tears.
I have here some tips of advice to remember in doing the stretching exercise. Take a bath and stretch if you are sweaty and wet. The hot water can help you relax and can prevent you to chill. Always warm up to increase the blood flow around the body. After the exercise, make sure that your heart rate is down before stretching to avoid the blood pooling in the muscles that can lead to a dizzy spell and cramps. Start with a leg and work up to body if you have a bad memory to be sure that you wont miss any of the stretches. If you fell any severe pain, stop immediately. Do not hold your breath; it should be regularly and rhythmically. You might feel slight discomfort in whilst stretching, but if not, you might do the stretch incorrectly or maybe your muscle has eased off. Never bounce whilst you stretch, unless youre doing a specific stretch. Hold your stretch until you feel the muscles loosen and repeat for another 15 seconds in addition. Stretching might be very easy and simple but it can cause injury to us.
I already explain some of the benefits that you can gain from stretching. And in addition of that, you can also get the improvement in Rom (range of motion); you can also prevent the post-exercise muscles soreness and slow DOMS (delayed-onset muscle soreness). But think of it, one stretching may not be enough in all injury. To achieve the intended effect of stretching exercise you should multiple it.