Sports activities for maintenance of health

Dr Ranjith Kumar | 01-April-2014

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Your have to think twice before engaging in sports activities for the sake of exercise because it will adversely affect your health unless you are physically fit for that particular game            

By Dr Ranjith Kumar

In the modern world, the word exercise has become an unavoidable part of life. Last week one day, I happened to go to a stadium in the early morning to see my friend and surprised to watch a crowd there, indulged in all sorts of exercises from walking to cricket, and also thought whether those people were aware of the demerits of exercises along with the merits.

Involvement in sports activities for maintenance of health is increasing day by day. Sending children for some kind of sports activity is common now. However, most people are unaware of the problems and risks involved in a sport if it is not properly, timely and effectively done. Social media is also projecting sports activities as an adjuvant to exercise to maintain health. But actually each sport has to be properly understood and effectively executed under trained personnel to achieve better health.

What we need to decide is to choose the sport we want to engage in and the time we can utilise for that. Ill-health and injuries can happen during the sport. There are treatment modalities which may be needed prior to, during and after the sports activity. Properly managed diet also is essential for the maintenance of health.

Sports medicine is becoming more and more important in this new context. In olden days, people in their youth used to involve in lots of  physical activities like swimming, working in farms etc. and the common games they used to play also involved a lot of physical activities. Children were regularly sent for Kalari and Yoga practices, where they were primed effectively by Ayurvedic and marma therapies.

In countries like China and Japan, and in European countries, their indigenous games are also included in sports curriculums. The outcome is also remarkable.

Nowadays, we need everything in a capsule form and expect instant results. But in the case of health, if not done in a systematic and proper way, things may end up in ill-health.

So, our aim is to attain good health by properly administering adequate sports events combined with an integrated approach of Yoga, Ayurveda and diet management.         

Before engaging in sports activities, we have to make use of modern medical facilities and investigations to know whether we are physically fit. If any unforeseen health hazard occurs, adequate medical care at a properly equipped sports medical centre must be made available.

In my opinion, we should think of health centres which can provide proper education on sports, diet and related health problems, which include old priming procedures of Kalari and Yoga along with modern medical facilities.

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