Sports Injuries Signs & Symptoms

Most Orlando sports injuries that need attention have some common warning signs and symptoms. Acute sports injuries are often obvious, and occur in a dramatic fashion, but other injuries can creep up slowly and get progressively worse. These often turn into nagging chronic aches and pains. If you pay attention to the warnings signs and symptoms of both types of injuries, you can often heal quicker and avoid serious damage or a long-term problem.

Don’t Ignore These Orlando Sports Injury Warning Signs

• Joint Pain.  
Joint pain, particularly in the joints of the knee, ankle, elbow and wrist, should never be ignored. Because these joints are not covered by muscle, pain here is rarely of muscular origin. Joint pain that lasts more than 48 hours requires a physician’s diagnosis.
• Tenderness at a Specific Point.  
If you can elicit pain at a specific point in a bone, muscle or joint, by pressing your finger into it, you may have a significant injury. If the same spot on the other side of the body does not produce the same pain, you should probably see a physician.
• Swelling.  
Nearly all sports injuries cause swelling. Swelling is usually quite obvious and can be seen, but occasionally you may just feel as though something is swollen even though it look normal. Swelling usual goes hand-in-hand with pain, redness and heat. Swelling within a joint often causes pain, stiffness, and may produce a clicking sound as the tendons snap over one another after having been pushed into a new position from the swelling.
• Reduced Range of Motion
.  If swelling isn’t obvious, you can usually find it by checking for a reduced range of motion in a joint. If there is significant swelling within a joint, you will lose range of motion — the limb will only go so far in each direction. Again, compare one side of the body with the other to identify major differences; if there are any, you likely have an injury that needs attention.
• Numbness and Tingling.  
Never ignore numbness or tingling. Such sensations are often related to nerve compression, and these warning signs may indicate serious injury that should always be seen by a physician.

If you recognize any of the above warning signs from Orlando sports injuries, the goal is to prevent further damage. Contact Eterna MD to see if our Orlando regenerative medicine treatments are right for you at 407.771.0404.