Sports Physiotherapy
Common injury patterns, mechanisms and risk factors for 12 sports, linked to the conditions, protocols and the book’s load-management principles.
Running
Mostly repetitive-use: high volume of low-magnitude load exceeding tissue capacity.
Cycling
Repetitive knee flexion–extension and sustained trunk flexion.
Football (soccer)
Sprinting (eccentric hamstring braking), kicking, cutting and pivoting.
Cricket
High-volume throwing/bowling and repeated trunk extension–rotation.
Badminton
Explosive lunges, jumps and overhead smashes.
Tennis
Repeated gripping and overhead serving.
Basketball
Jumping, landing and change of direction.
Swimming
Very high volume of overhead shoulder motion.
Weightlifting
High-magnitude loading; deep end-range positions.
Bodybuilding
High volume of isolated loading; deep stretched positions (dips, bench).
CrossFit / functional fitness
Mixed high-volume and high-magnitude loading under fatigue.
Trekking & hiking
Long walking volume, downhill loading, uneven terrain.