How to choose sports protective equipment

Exercise and fitness is an essential part of our life. Usually, when the weather is good, it is very meaningful to ask some friends to exercise. In fact, this idea is incorrect, because this kind of injury, such as sprain, fall and all kinds of bruises, accounts for only 2% of sports injuries. Its name is accidental injury. Nearly 98% of the injuries are sports technical injuries. Because we generally have no special training, coupled with insufficient self-protection awareness and inadequate understanding of this technical injury, we often ignore its existence, but it does great harm to us. In order to reduce and avoid the injury caused by sports, the protection of sports protective equipment is needed. It is very important to understand and understand the role of sports protective equipment and select and use it correctly. Here are some of the most common sports protective equipment for you.

Helmets: mostly used by skaters, skateboarders, cyclists, rock climbers and other athletes. Helmets can reduce or even eliminate the impact injury of objects on the head to ensure safety. The shock absorption effect of helmet can be divided into soft protection and hard protection. During impact, soft protection reduces the impact force by increasing the impact distance, and all the kinetic energy of impact is transferred to the head; Hard protection does not increase the impact distance, but digests kinetic energy through its own fragmentation.

Goggles: goggles are auxiliary equipment used to protect eyes. Their main function is to prevent eye damage caused by strong light and sand. Protective glasses have the characteristics of transparency, good elasticity and not easy to crack.

Waist protection: it is mostly used by weightlifters and throwing athletes. Some athletes often use it when doing heavy load strength training. The waist is the middle link of the human body. As a heavy load strength training, it needs to be transmitted through the center of the waist. When the waist strength is insufficient or the action is incorrect, it will be injured. The use of waist protection can effectively support and fix, and can effectively prevent lumbar sprain.

Knee pads: they are mostly used by ball players such as volleyball, basketball and badminton, and also by people who carry out heavy-duty sports such as weightlifting and fitness. The use of knee pads can better fix the joints, reduce the collision and wear of joints in sports, and prevent the damage to the epidermis when falling in sports.

Wrist guard: mostly used by volleyball, basketball, badminton and other ball games. Wrist guard can effectively reduce the excessive flexion and extension of the wrist, especially the ball speed of tennis is very fast. Wearing wrist guard can reduce the impact on the wrist at the moment of ball touch and protect the wrist.

Ankle protection: generally used by sprinters and jumpers in track and field events. The use of ankle protection can fix and protect the ankle joint, prevent ankle sprain, and prevent excessive elongation of Achilles tendon. For athletes with ankle injury, it can also effectively reduce the range of joint activity, reduce pain and accelerate recovery.

Leg guards: special for football players. It is mainly to prevent athletes from injuring the head-on bone when kicking or tackling, so as to avoid and reduce injuries.