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Sport the more practiced in Canada is not without risk. Close to 16 out of 100 golfers get injured good year bread year, especially to the back. Fortunately, some precautions permit to warn the injuries.

It is what takes out a survey again led on average by 588 Australian, aged 59 ans1 of golfers. According to the results, for every slice of 100 golfers, one counts 15.8 injuries. The men would be a little more numerous to get injured (16.5%) that the women (13%).

The main parts of the body where the injuries occur are the low of the back (18.3%), the forearms and the elbows (17.2%), the feet and the ankles (12.9%), as well as the shoulders (11.8%).

To what time the incidents occur? Especially during the impetus, in a proportion of 46.2%. In this case, the pain appears at the time of the impact between the stick and the bullet, the lawn or a stump of tree (23.7% of the cases), as well as during the extension of the impetus according to the impact (21.5%).

However, a significant proportion of the injuries (39.8%) do not appear during the part herself, but in a delay able to spread on one year.

The frequency of the shares would also be a factor of risk of injuries. They touch a golfer on five that play golf three times or more per week, compared to one on ten among those that take their sport to only one time per week.

Beware of the changes of sticks!

Discovered surprising, those that play with the same sticks since ten years are less exposed to the injuries (6.3%) that those that changed them during the three previous years (16.4%) or since three to five years (19, 6%).

According to the authors of the survey, the more modern sticks, composed of lighter materials, would push the golfers to intensify the effort opened out during the impetus, thus imposing a supplementary effort to the back and to the implied members.

Of the things felt to avoid to get injured

According to the analysis of several studies, some exercises would permit to reduce the risk of injuries, that it is on the hillock of departure or elsewhere on the land of golf3.

Only the half of the golfers does exercises of warming-up and stretch before practicing their sport.

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