Aliya Enciso Basketball: How to Prevent, Treat and Diagnose Injuries: hands, wrists, and fingers

                As basketball is a game using mainly your hands, there are many injuries that can happen regarding hands, wrists and fingers. In Basketball: How to Prevent, Treat and Diagnose Injuries, it shows the many ways these parts of your body can be hurt. “Injuries to these areas occur while receiving passes, shooting, rebounding, and while breaking falls.” Sometimes injuries like these happen faster than you think and you go from running back and forth on the court with the ball to being examined under an X-ray by a doctor because of a broken wrist. I knew a person who played on my basketball team and while we were on a tournament she caught a bad pass that shot her wrist back and she was taken out of the game. After the tournament she thought she could tough out the pain and skip a visit with her doctor. Weeks later and she took a mean hit that sent her to the floor, bracing herself with her hands and falling badly on her wrist that she had previously hurt. This time is was bad, she went to the emergency room and the doctor said she had broken her wrist extremely bad. Her doctor told her since she didn’t go in when she first hurt her wrist, her injury was much worse the second time around. With that being said, I learned not only from her personal experience but also reading this book that it is very important to see a doctor after any type of injury regardless of whether or not you think you can tough it out.

Question: What are you doing to ensure your safety? Could you be doing a better job?