Hello and welcome back to Badminton Insight! Now this week we can't film one of our usual videos
as i've been struggling with concussion after getting hit on the head with a racket in training
this isn't a common badminton injury however it does happen if your partner gets angry
with you quite a lot...
Video of the tournament has gone viral Canada's former olympians say they hope the match doesn't set a bad precedent
in my experience they should look at the review Anyway over the last few weeks we've had lots
of you commenting asking for the most common injuries in badminton and how to prevent them
so in this video we're going to go through our top five, now over to Jen in the hall
who's going to start with number five! Twisting and turning constantly in badminton means we've
seen quite a few rolled ankles over the years if you're squeamish look away now
oh dear I didn't like that, I did not like that!
There are several ways to protect your ankle, you can wear a brace or strap it
up which some players do and you can also protect your ankle by strengthening
it - here is an example of a great exercise with three progressions
using all of the muscles and tendons around your ankle to stabilise and strengthen it
and next up at number four is feet, now we know feet is a bit of a grim topic but it's
so important to take good care of your feet! Having sore feet means you won't be comfortable
in your movement and jumping around the court and being in sweaty socks and sweaty shoes
all day isn't a good idea either, you should make sure you always carry a spare pair of clean socks
in your bag! Blisters are sometimes unavoidable though and can be a result of either new shoes
or playing a lot when you haven't played in a while we don't bother using the blister plasters
as we find that as soon as we get sweaty they just fall off our foot we use this second skin
which is literally a lifesaver and there's nothing better, we'll include a link in the
description to Amazon if any of you regularly struggle with blisters and want to save your feet!
Another good tip is to wear your shoes around the house especially in new shoes and as i've
not been able to train in over a week now i'm doing it just to keep my feet conditioned
call me sad if you want but I've found that over the years it helps to maintain that hard protective
skin that you need when returning to court! Anyway, sorry to interrupt, back to Jen in the hall to go
through number three which is... elbow pain! There are so many different types of elbow injuries
from golfer's elbow to tennis elbow however these aren't all that common in top level professionals
you'll see elbow injuries more often in players that either have the wrong technique and the
wrong grip or players who are just too tense and are trying to squeeze the racket too hard!
We're not qualified physiotherapists but the first place you should look is your technique!
Now moving on to number two and the second most common injury is shoulder pain using our shoulders
for every shot in badminton it's not surprising that this is one of the most common injuries
we've mentioned this a few times in our previous videos but to prevent shoulder injuries we would
highly recommend doing shoulder strengthening exercises, we've done a full video on this which
we'll link in the description below for you to check out and our most common badminton injury is
knees! Whether there's too much strain from overload causing tendon issues or just a one-off
horrible twist we've seen so many different types of knee injuries
As you just saw from that clip Carolina Marin tore her
acl and in her amazon documentary she discusses the injury the setbacks and overcoming this injury
to return to the highest level of badminton we'd really recommend giving it a watch if you haven't
already we'll include a link in the description below. From an acl tear to little niggles there are
so many different types of knee injuries - I'm just recovering from an inflamed fat pad, yeah fat pad
that's the actual term which was simply caused by just mistiming my footwork in an agility session
thankfully it wasn't anything serious and I'm all recovered now and back to full training
but aside from the one-off horrible to watch knee injuries knee injuries are more common if you have
tight hips and glutes so these are two areas we'd recommend stretching and foam rolling regularly
So they were our top five most common injuries in badminton and a few ways to prevent them too
I'd just like to give a special mention to the eye as this is a serious one in badminton so no
matter how much your opponent annoys you don't try and hit them in the eye, please be careful! In
general some of these injuries you can do nothing about and others you can as well as doing a good
badminton specific warm up and stretching regularly you can also do weights training to reduce the
risk of injury! We have some programs to help you out with this on our website we'll include a link
in the description below and finally we've got a really exciting video coming either next Sunday
or the Sunday after so if you haven't already make sure you smash the subscribe button and
turn the notification bell on so you don't miss out! And throughout this video we've mentioned a
few of our other videos such as our stretching or shoulder strengthening which you can watch next...