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Their are many sports injuries that can occur. They can be to soft tissues like muscles, tendons and ligaments. The others are to bones. With all injuries their are some simple steps to follow to get back nice and quick. Try these;

Seek advice from a physio or sports therapist
Ice the area for up to 20 mins every 2 hours, for up to 7 days, this will numb the pain, reduce swelling.

Compress the injury if it is soft tissue.
Follow the rehab plan you are set, and you will be back soon and you won't have a recurrence within weeks back in your sport.
Make sure you work on proprioception of your joints. This is the stability, and stops joints from giving way and helps tell the body when the joint/s are at their normal point and can stop moving.

You need to keep the joint which will be affected moving, this will prevent tissues tightening up reducing your movements, this will help increase the strength but also increase your movements.

I can tell you this because this is what I have studied and do for a living. Even breaking bones you can start your prehab building and maintaining strength of supporting joints reducing the work you have to do to get back. Then all you have to do when out of plaster is strengthen areas the plaster wouldn't let you and work on regaining movements and building the stamina back up. Can be done in weeks!

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