How can taking a seemingly effortless stroll and hitting a few balls along the way cause an injury?
This may be your perspective if you have never played a round of golf. But if you have, you realize that even this non contact, low impact sport results in frequent injuries. In fact, this time of year golf injuries are commonly seen in our clinic. . . although hardly ever right away.
Most of the people we know who play golf seem to put up with injuries and just keep playing. They experience aches, pains, and stiffness more than excruciating pain. Most of them don’t want to accept that the injury is in fact a consequence of the sport they love. That is until inevitably they are forced to stop playing.
The problem with golf is that it involves a lot of positions that the body isn’t designed to be in. In addition, the temptation is to hit the ball with as much power as possible to make it go further. These forceful, awkward twisting movements put too much stress on certain parts of the body.