 During basketball season, one of the more common injuries seen is the ankle sprain. It generally happens when a player lands on another athlete’s foot and rolls their ankle. Ankle sprains can happen when the athlete goes to plant their foot and take off another direction.
CAUSES: The ankle is made up of 7 bones; the calcaneous, talus, navicular, cuboid, and cuneiform I, II, and III. Your two lower leg bones, the tibia (your shin bone) and fibula come done and connect with your foot bones creating the ankle. If you feel the bump on the inside of your ankle, you are touching the base of the fibula known as the medial malleolus. And just beneath that bump is a “fan like” group of ligaments known as the deltoid ligament. The deltoid is most commonly injured with an eversion type ankle sprain. |
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Every movement in athletics or even daily tasks use your core muscles. The core region is just not your six-pack abs but include all the muscles from your rib cage to your hip bone on the front and back side. The main purpose of the core to stabalize your pelvis and trunk as your limbs are moving. 
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The hamstrings are on the posterior (back) portion on the thigh and are made up of three muscles; semimembranosus, semitendonosus and biceps femorus. The hamstrings originate on the ischial tuberosity (the bones you sit on in your rear) and attach just over the knee. These muscles help to flex the knee and extend the hip.
What is Plantar Fasciitis? The plantar fascia is a band of fibrous tissue that runs along the bottom side of your foot that supports your arch. When you have fasciitis, it means that the band is inflamed and irritated.
Anatomy: The medial collateral ligament is a tight band of tissue on the inner side of the knee. It helps prevent abnormal bending of the knee medially (or inwardly). When stressed or twisted or with force applied to the outside of the knee pushing inward, the ligament is sprained. A sprain is a tear in the ligament and it can be partial or complete. 
What is it? Little League elbow is pain in the elbow joint due to repetitive throwing. Throwing too many pitches or throwing the wrong type of pitches (i.e., curves or sliders) puts great stress on a young pitcher's elbow ligaments. 
One of the most common injuries in a variety of sports is rotator cuff syndrome of the shoulder. This injury results from pressure on the rotator cuff muscles from a part of the shoulder blade as the arm is lifted. The rotator cuff is made up of 4 muscles that work together to hold the ball of the shoulder into the joint. These four little muscles have a tough roll fighting the strong deltoid muscle, as its main roll is to pull the ball of the shoulder in the opposite direction. 
What is ITBS? Pain and inflammation on the outside of the knee, where the iliotibial band (a muscle on the outside of the thigh) becomes tendinous, and results in a friction syndrome by rubbing against the femur (thigh bone) as it runs alongside the knee joint. 
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