Common Training Injuries Archives

Injury Prevention Tips for Martial Artists

Posted on April 7, 2025February 19, 2025 by Fight Quality

Martial arts can be physically demanding, requiring agility, strength, and endurance. Whether you’re training in Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, or boxing, there’s always a risk of injury due to the intensity of the sport. Injury prevention in martial arts is crucial to ensuring long-term success, consistent progress, and overall health. Injuries can set back your training and potentially lead to more serious problems if not managed properly.

Common Training Injuries and How to Treat Them – Orbital Fracture

Posted on January 25, 2021March 2, 2021 by Niall

You’re going hard in sparring, working with someone bigger than you to get ready for an upcoming fight. Or maybe you’re having the fight, with small gloves being swung hard back and forth. Suddenly your guard drops lower than it should as you throw a punch and you catch a counter hook right on the edge of your eye socket. There’s a lot of pain and some quick swelling, you might get double vision or your eye might bulge right out. Welcome to your new orbital fracture.

Common Training Injuries And How To Treat Them – Ankle Sprains

Posted on January 13, 2020February 4, 2022 by Niall

You throw a leg kick, it connects beautifully as always, but when you return to your stance you land awkwardly and roll over you ankle. It hurts, a lot. Welcome to your new ankle sprain! Ankle sprains are pretty common in everyday life, not just sports, but sudden changes of direction and turning to throw punches and kicks definitely increases the likelihood that you might end up twisting your ankle.

Common Training Injuries and How To Treat Them – ACL Tear

Posted on September 24, 2018February 4, 2022 by Niall

You’re sparring in the ring or cage, just moving round, and you quickly change direction to create an angle on your opponent. That’s when you feel a sudden and severe pain from your knee. Or you’re in a fight and your opponent lands a heavy leg kick against the side of your knee, and the pain sends you down to the canvas. Unfortunately you’ve just found out what it’s like to tear your ACL.

Common Training Injuries and How to Treat Them – Boxer’s Fracture

Posted on July 30, 2018February 4, 2022 by Niall

You’ve been boxing for a while, you’re really enjoying it and you feel like you know what you’re doing in the gym. Everything’s starting to flow and as your techniques getting better you start ramping up the power. One day you’re dropping bombs on that crazy heavy punch bag and bang, pain shoots through your hand and by the time you take your glove off it’s starting to swell and change colour. Say hello to your new boxer’s fracture.

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Common Training Injuries and How to Treat Them – Tendonitis

Posted on July 1, 2016August 9, 2021 by Niall

Tendonitis is the common name for a range of different injuries that can be caused to the tendons of the bodies various muscles – the strong cords of tissue that connect the muscle and the skeleton, and are needed to move the bones and joints when the muscles contract and relax.

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Common Training Injuries and How to Treat Them – Shin Splints

Posted on May 6, 2016August 9, 2021 by Niall

Maybe you’ve just starting training, you’ve been to a few classes and decided to start running to up your cardio. Maybe you’re a fighter and you’ve ramped up your running to get ready for a fight. Either way, you’ve been running for a while and you get this pain shooting down the front of your lower leg, and it turns your run from what could have been a personal best into a painful hobble.

Welcome to the world of shin splints.

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