How to minimize feet/knee injuries in squash?
Squash is certainly a demanding sports on the lower body, so a proper understanding of the injuries are essential to minimizing your risk of injury. Most injuries can be avoided with losing weight, good footwork and playing regularly. Most beginners and intermediate players make the mistake of running to the ball and coming to a quick stop to play their shot. This places excessive shock loads into the knees and you increase the risk of an ankle sprain. Good footwork involves stretching and lunging to the ball. If you watch Jansher Khan you will see that he moves around with very economical movement. For beginners and intermediate players, the following two causes are the main factors affecting feet and knee injuries in squash. 1) Playing squash while being over-weight Result: Excessive loads go into your feet/knees as a result of the extra weight that should not be there Symptons: Knee pain Treatment: Reduce weight to normal level. Load going into knees will lessen and pain should go a
