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What are the common parts of the body that become injured for golfers? What are the common reasons why injuries occur? And finally, what can you do to prevent injuries in the sport , Do You Have A One-Plane Or Two-Plane Swing? of golf? Let's discuss what happens when you have an injury in relation to your golf swing. , Charity Tournaments An injury to your body like a pulled muscle, strained tendon, or something as minimal as a hangnail can affect your swing. , Choosing the Perfect Equipment For Your Game 'How?'? you ask. Your body is a finely tuned machine. This fined tune piece of equipment is also a great mechanism of compensation. What do I mean? If you have a little 'pull'? of a muscle, a compensation pattern occurs in the body. This small compensation by your body has an affect on your golf swing. , Strength Training For '? No Gym Required It might be so minimal that you don't even feel it, but your shots and scores show it. So what are you to do? Well, the obvious answer is to do everything to prevent an injury from occurring. We will discuss this point at the end of the article. At this time let us move on to answering the questions above. Injuries: The Why's, What's, and How's First off, realize that the majority of research I have read indicates that over 50% of recreational golfers , How to Optimally Prepare for the Season with Fitness Exercises will incur a golf-related injury during their playing career. Think about it. In your foursome you played with over the weekend, at least two of you will come up lame. Keep that idea in mind as we move to other statistics. The common injuries in golfers , Course are low back, wrist, and shoulder. , Swing Series: Five Secrets to Perfecting your Game A list I imagine most of you could probably have predicted. How do these injuries to your low back, wrist, or shoulder , Choosing the Right Club for Your Swing occur? The answer is twofold. There are two different types of injuries when it comes to golf , Know Your Course: Weather Conditions or any other sport. , Priority on the Course Injuries are classified as either acute or chronic. An acute injury is an injury that is the direct result of an external force at a specific point in time. Let me explain. If you were walking down the street and fell, breaking your ankle, that type of injury is an acute injury. The injury occurred as a result of an external force (falling on concrete) at a specific point in time (walking down the street). The majority of golf , Priority on the Course injuries do not fall into the acute injury category. An occasional wrist injury can be an acute injury if you hit, , ball divers say, a tree root in the downswing. Or maybe you trip while walking on the course , What Can A Exercise Routine Do For Those Who Are Happy With Their Game and sprain your ankle. These are acute-type golf , Uphill Putts are Easier injuries. They are few and far between when discussing golf , Swing Series: Five Secrets to Perfecting your Game injuries in general. The second type of injury category is what we call chronic injuries. Chronic injuries occur over time and are the most common type of injury in golf. , Hawaii Vacation - Tee It Up in Paradise! How do chronic injuries occur? Probably the easiest way to explain it is the following: after time the muscles, tendons, and ligaments of the body become tired. Once they become tired, fatigue sets in, and when your brain tells the body to swing , Do You Have A One-Plane Or Two-Plane ? that club , Strength Training For '? No Gym Required and it's tired, what do you think is going to happen? Over time those muscles will get to a point of such fatigue that on one swing , Series: Five Secrets to Perfecting your Game or in one round, the body gives up and something gets pulled, strained, or inflamed. At that point you now have a chronic golf , Professional ers Are Overpaid? injury. It's pretty simple when you think of the whole process of a golf swing. , How To Choose The Best Wedges To Improve Your Score A golf swing , Building a Repeatable Swing Like Tiger Woods is a repetitive movement that places stresses on the same muscles over and over again. As a result, those muscles get tired. And you now know what eventually happens to those muscles when they get tired; they break down and become injured! So the next question is: how can you prevent chronic injuries in golf? A couple viable answers exist. Probably the easiest way to combat chronic golf , Tips On Purchasing Equipment Online injuries is not to play. , Principles versus Mechanics What do you mean not play! , Shoulder Exercises To Improve Your Game Simple, if you do not play , Is This The Worst Tip Ever? a lot of golf, , ball divers then the stresses you place on your body will be less than playing 36 each weekend. So your body will not get as tired, and your chances of a chronic golf , Basics Of Swing Instruction'?Go With Exercises injury are less. The other option (which I imagine is the route most of you reading this article would like to take) is to develop what I term 'golf strength.'? 'Golf strength'? is developing the body in a manner that creates a foundation to support your swing. , In Home Fitness Is Easy and Convenient And when we talk about foundation, we are talking about the areas of flexibility, balance, strength, endurance, and power in a manner that assists you in maintaining the correct swing , Hawaii Vacation - Tee It Up in Paradise! mechanics swing , Course to swing. , Dealing With Down Slopes The development of 'golf strength'? will limit (not eliminate) the possibility of injury and enhance your golf swing. , Importance of Etiquette Again, if your body can't support the movement you are asking it to do, the brain will still make your body do it, but eventually the body will 'put on the brakes'? and come up injured. So there you have it! 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