NCD Watch July 2016 - Sports and Injuries

Sport is one of the most widespread leisure activities which enhance one’s physical, mental and social health. Taking proper precautions can prevent injuries from spoiling your enjoyment of sports.  Sports injuries result from a complex interaction of multiple risk factors, circumstances and events that may involve athletes’ attributes (e.g. fitness or skill level) and behaviours (e.g. risk taking or safety practices), characteristics of sports (e.g. level of competitiveness or rules of play), playing situations (e.g. duration of the game) and the environment (e.g. weather conditions). Download full article



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