About sports injuries
An acute sports injury is an injury with enough energy that the tissue's limit for load is exceeded. This is also called a macrotrauma. The injury has a clear point in time and a defined mechanism of injury. Examples could be a fracture, a muscle strain or a sprained ankle.
A load-related sports injury occurs when tissue is exposed to repeated and one-sided load over time, so that the tissue is gradually weakened without being able to recover. This is called repetitive microtrauma. At some point this results in an injury that causes symptoms. Continued load will increase the extent of the injury and the symptoms. Tendon inflammation (tendinopathies), stress fractures and shin splints (medial tibial stress syndrome) are typical examples.