You are most vulnerable to injury when you are playing plenty of golf like at golf school vacations. It is therefore extremely important that you understand a little more about golf injuries and how they come about. The following tips should be of great use to any golfer and not just the one going on golf school vacations.
Typically injuries from golf will tend to happen in the parts of the body that are used most. These are parts of the body like the shoulders, arms wrists, elbows, hands and lower back. After all during a game, muscles in these parts of the body will be used a lot and the longer the period of play (like at a golf school vacation) the more vulnerable they become to injury and soreness.
To start with you need to know that there are two main types of golf injuries. Namely acute injuries and what most people call cumulative golf injuries.
An acute injury is a sudden injury that you get while playing the game either from a sudden awkward movement that strains and injures a muscle, or even as a result of slipping at a critical part of the golf swing. The most common acute golf injuries usually involve the shoulder and the back.
Cumulative injuries, as the name suggests are injuries you develop over a longer period of playing golf. This can rapidly develop over several days of golf school during a brief vacation. Repetitive movements and motions progressively hurt certain muscles and joints until they become so painful that you can no longer play.
Quite often many golfers will tend to ignore pains and soreness in the body not realizing that they could be the tell tale signs of the beginnings of a cumulative golf injury. This happens a lot at golf school vacations. What you need to do is to see a doctor immediately without any delay. It is much better that it turns out to be a false alarm rather than you allowing a dangerous and painful cumulative injury to take hold over a certain period of time.
To avoid both cumulative and certain types of acute golf injuries, it is extremely important that you warm up with extensive stretch exercises that will gently stretch the muscles you are going to use as close as possible to their limits. Ten minutes of stretching exercises before a game are adequate as long as your exercises cover all muscles that are going to be involved in your golf game. Warm up is equally important after the golf game as some cumulative injuries are caused by straining a muscle that has remained tense long after the game.
