Daily News | Home gyms and workout injuries rose during the pandemic. Here’s how to set up a safe workout space
Herniated disks, muscle strain, face lacerations, and scratched corneas — Philadelphia-area doctors have seen their share of exercise-related injuries. Those injuries rose during the pandemic, as more people made due with at-home gym equipment when their local fitness center shut down.
, which analyzed data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.“Know your limits,” said Stephen Stache Jr., chief of non-operative sports medicine at Rothman Orthopaedic Institute.
You shouldn’t be able to easily bend your shoes in half, especially for heavy-impact exercise, Simon said. Supportive shoes will also help prevent overpronation, which is when your feet turn inward during an exercise, straining muscles, tendons, and ligaments.Lifting weights that are too heavy requires a jerking motion, which can cause stress fractures and disk herniation. It can happen even to exercise buffs, like Brett Rubinson.
Some treadmills have built-in child-safety measures, such as requiring a code or key to start. If yours has a key, make sure you remove it at the end of your workout, so children can’t accidentally turn on the treadmill. Keep folding treadmills folded and latched when not in use.Accidents happen when bands snap back too quickly or break. Choose a stable place to attach a band, like a wall-attached pull-up bar, rather than under a piece of furniture or on a door handle.
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