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those who play sports and are and how do you treat them?
involved in strenuous physical
activity. He emphasized on Dr Bora: The most common
the importance of and also injuries that we see in
demonstrated the proper way children playing high intensity
to stretch for various sports sports like soccer, basketball,
as many do not know what is tennis etc. are knee injuries
right and wrong. The session referred to as the ACL
also informed parents of the injuries where the anterior
ways in which they could cruciate ligament gets torn
help their child to avoid and or sprained. The treatment
recover from injuries that they is decided depending on the
may encounter while playing severity of injuries but a lot
Dr Manu Bora the sport of their choice. of rest and rehabilitation are
definitely included.
Post that, he sat down for a
Dr Manu Bora, a renowned tete-tete session with the Dhruv: What are the
sports medicine specialist previous and current year’s repercussions of leaving
working with the multi- student sports captains of sports injuries untreated for
speciality Artemis Hospital in DPSI to answer some specific example shin splints of which
Gurgaon, took time out to host queries. I myself am a victim!
a session on ‘Health, Fitness
and Sports Injury’ for the Chahat: Sir, what injuries Dr Bora: Shin splints in
students and parents of DPSI have you come across particular more often than
on August 13, 2019. He shared most commonly in children not heal by themself, but if
content that would benefit indulging in sports activities you leave other injuries like a
