{"id":691184,"date":"2026-05-05T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daisho.be\/how-can-common-combat-sports-injuries-be-prevented\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:53:07","slug":"how-can-common-combat-sports-injuries-be-prevented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daisho.be\/en\/how-can-common-combat-sports-injuries-be-prevented\/","title":{"rendered":"How can common combat sports injuries be prevented?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Monday, March 9, 2026, 2pm. I push open the doors of the Ulteam building.  The interior exudes professionalism, performance and well-being.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Houdart welcomes me, with a smile on his face, to talk about combat injuries. As a karate practitioner, physiotherapist, posturologist and osteopath, he puts his many hats on to help athletes regain their health.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Can you introduce yourself in a few words?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>My name&#8217;s <strong>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Houdart<\/strong>, and I&#8217;m delighted to be spending this time with you. So, let me introduce myself in a few words&#8230; it&#8217;s going to be an ordeal, but we&#8217;ll try! *<em>So<\/em> I&#8217;m a <strong>sports osteopath<\/strong> and a <strong>posturologist specializing in motor preference<\/strong>. I&#8217;m also the co-founder of <strong>Ulteam<\/strong>, a sports and health center based in Binche. <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>At Ulteam, we have a sports division and a health division. In the health section, there are various health professionals such as <strong>osteopaths<\/strong>, <strong>physiotherapists<\/strong>, <strong>chiropodists<\/strong> and so on. We also have specialized consultations for athletes: sports dietetics, sports medicine, sports osteopathy&#8230;  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the sports section. There are just over <strong>50 classes a week<\/strong>. All these classes are categorized by level, so we can cater for grandpa who wants to lift his grandchildren as well as top-level athletes. All these classes are supervised and coached, and the corrections are always adapted to the individual&#8217;s profile.   <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>We also have combat sport classes ranging from ground techniques to fist-fighting and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daisho.be\/en\/categorie-produit\/equipment-and-clothing-for-martial-arts-and-combat-sports\/mma-en\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.daisho.be\/categorie-produit\/arts-martiaux-et-sports-de-combat\/mma\/\">MMA<\/a> to combine everything.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How long have you been practicing martial arts, and more specifically Shito-Ryu karate?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>So I practised Shito-Ryu karate for 6 years up to the rank of 2nd Kyu. I also practised Mastro D\u00e9fence System for 2 years and Hapkido for two. All these martial techniques have also shaped my way of seeing life and working.    <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daisho.be\/en\/categorie-produit\/equipment-and-clothing-for-martial-arts-and-combat-sports\/karate-en-2\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.daisho.be\/categorie-produit\/arts-martiaux-et-sports-de-combat\/karate\/\">in karate,<\/a> for example, we&#8217;ll have techniques that require tension, impulse and weight transfer. It&#8217;s exactly the same thing in osteopathy, where to manipulate a joint, we also have to apply tension, build momentum, find the right moment and then make an explosive movement, as in <strong>combat sports<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What link do you make between your martial arts practice, running and your profession as an osteopath and posturologist?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>I said earlier that I specialized in <strong>motor preference<\/strong>. What are motor preferences? It&#8217;s the preferred way of moving. We&#8217;re all different, we move differently, we think differently, and so we need gestures and care adapted to that.   <\/p>\n\n<p>For example, in running, there are land runners and air runners. Aerial-type runners will be much more on the forefoot, much more bouncy, whereas terrestrial-type runners will be much more anchored to the ground with a stride that&#8217;s much steeper. <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>In karate, to give an example, we see <strong>practitioners<\/strong> who are much higher and much more bouncy. Here, we see some who are much more anchored to the ground. Those who are taller and more bouncy will prefer movements where they go backwards to be able to give an impulse and use what we call a plyometric contraction.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Conversely, those who are anchored to the ground will be able to go straight forward from the zero position, this time using concentric force.  <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What are the most common injuries you see among martial arts practitioners? Which areas of the body are most at risk, depending on the discipline (karate, judo, MMA, etc.)? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>There are really <strong>all kinds of injuries<\/strong>, depending on the type of sport or martial art you&#8217;re going to do. But they fall into two broad categories: <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daisho.be\/en\/categorie-produit\/equipment-and-clothing-for-martial-arts-and-combat-sports\/judo-en\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.daisho.be\/categorie-produit\/arts-martiaux-et-sports-de-combat\/judo\/\">judo-type<\/a> projection sports<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>striking sports  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>In <strong>throwing sports<\/strong>, the pathology is called <strong>traumatic<\/strong>, with dislocations and sprains mainly of the shoulder, elbow and wrist. We also have <strong>microtraumatic pathology<\/strong>, which is often linked to spinal problems caused by repeated falls.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>When it comes to <strong>striking sports<\/strong>, we can differentiate between punching sports and kicking sports. In the first case, there will often be <strong>traumatic impaction pathologies<\/strong> (wrist, neck and shoulder injuries due to percussion).  The micro-traumas will be the same, but they won&#8217;t happen in a dry moment, but rather over time.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>And in the <strong>kicking techniques<\/strong>, this time we&#8217;re mainly going to have ankle sprains due to the position. To kick, you have to be standing on the other foot.  Obviously, this unstable position of the lower limb can lead to sprains.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Then there are mixed sports which combine both percussion and projection sports, like MMA, for example, where we can find all the pathologies we explained earlier.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What do you think are the main causes of these injuries?  <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>As we saw earlier, there are two types of injury: <strong>traumatic and microtraumatic<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>We can&#8217;t avoid all traumatic injuries. But we can reduce the number. Let me give you two examples: if you have an athlete who&#8217;s in great shape, who&#8217;s muscular, who&#8217;s flexible and who&#8217;s had a good night&#8217;s sleep, he&#8217;ll accept a trauma much better than someone who&#8217;s under-trained, who&#8217;s not muscular, who&#8217;s not flexible and who hasn&#8217;t had a good night&#8217;s sleep.    <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>In the case of <strong>microtraumatic pathologies<\/strong>, on the other hand, they can clearly be avoided by implementing preventive measures, whether in terms of physical preparation or osteopathic, posturological or other body monitoring.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>There are two main categories: microtraumatic pathologies of the <strong>beginner<\/strong> and those of the <strong>professional athlete<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>A beginner&#8217;s gestures will be faulty, and microtrauma will be caused by this faulty gesture, whereas a professional&#8217;s gestures will often be much cleaner, but the repetition will be much greater. The pathologies are therefore totally different. <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>And so the vast majority of problems often come from a lack of maintenance of the machine. If I compare the body to a car, we don&#8217;t wait for the car to explode before taking it to the garage. At least, I hope not <em>*smiles*<\/em>.   For our machine, it must be the same.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>And a sports car needs even more regular maintenance than a classic car. For the sportsman, it&#8217;s exactly the same thing. You need maintenance that&#8217;s fine-tuned and adapted to the workload you&#8217;re going to endure.    <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What warning signs should never be ignored?  <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s really important to be able to perceive them. To give you an idea, I&#8217;d say first of all that you need to treat the cause and not the symptom. For example, very often we see athletes who have a movement that&#8217;s becoming limited, and our idea is to repeat the movement a number of times to try and improve it. It&#8217;s a bit like being held by an elastic band and trying to pull on it every day to make it more supple.   <\/p>\n\n<p>In that case, we act on the symptom. What&#8217;s more useful is to act on the cause.   <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>So ask yourself why the elastic is under tension and work on the cause, which will free up the movement. Secondly, I would also say that prevention is better than cure. <strong>Prevention<\/strong> is super important, and it&#8217;s really one of the parts that&#8217;s the most problematic, because we often say to ourselves &#8220;everything&#8217;s fine, I&#8217;m fine&#8221;, and so we forget about this maintenance. You can think of the body as a bucket of water that fills up as you go along. At first, there&#8217;s a blockage, then a 2nd, a 3rd, a 5th, a 6th and so on. At some point, the jump overflows. The aim is to empty the bucket before it overflows.      <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>This will lead us to perceive the subtlest, finest signals. So a <strong>little pain<\/strong>, a little tension that you can feel when you&#8217;ve just done your maintenance. In other words, the bucket is almost empty, so we&#8217;ve got a long way to go to adapt.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>If you have a <strong>little tension<\/strong> at that moment, it&#8217;s not very serious. You don&#8217;t need to consult a doctor right away. If it doesn&#8217;t last more than 3 days, don&#8217;t worry, because the body can adapt.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>If, on the other hand, you have exactly the same sensation when your bucket is very full, then obviously it&#8217;s going to become much more problematic and you need to worry about it straight away.  <\/p>\n\n<p>That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important to know whether the bucket is a little full, moderately full or very full. And you get used to it as you go along. <strong>Sportsmen<\/strong> and women can tell whether their bucket is a little full, a little full or a lot full.   And I, for example, will use osteopathy to help them perceive whether their bucket is full or not.  <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>As a posturologist, what postural errors do you often observe in practitioners?  <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>What we can say is that, overall, there are <strong>imbalances<\/strong> between left and right and imbalances between front and rear. Here again, we need to understand why there are left-right imbalances. It&#8217;s often because we&#8217;ll have a preferential movement, a preferential side, and so we&#8217;ll very frequently repeat that side much more than the other.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>As long as it&#8217;s done within a certain range, there&#8217;s no problem. But when it&#8217;s done too much, it starts to become a problem. We also need to relate this to the person&#8217;s motor preferences. So if, for example, I take someone who&#8217;s made to move forward, if he has an imbalance that&#8217;s more towards the front, this imbalance will be perfectly in keeping with his way of functioning and therefore won&#8217;t be a problem for him.   <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>The problem would be if it was well forward, but far too forward. So these are what we call<strong>excessive profile<\/strong> pathologies. It&#8217;s in the right direction, but much too much in that direction.  <\/p>\n\n<p>And then there are the so-called profile defect pathologies, where the patient is the exact opposite of what he or she is supposed to be, and these are the most problematic cases.  <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Can you tell us about the importance of warming up? Do you have a typical routine to recommend? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>The warm-up is ultra-important, and is designed to bring the athlete up to the level of stress he or she will experience during the sport, whether training or competing. So you need to follow a number of different stages. Personally, I&#8217;d put them into six points.    <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll be <strong>working on joints<\/strong> and mobility, using techniques such as circumductions at the wrists, elbows, shoulders, hips, knees and ankles, as well as mobilization techniques in the axis: flexions, extensions at the spinal level and rotational movements at the spinal level.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>So all these movements are fairly slow, movements that will work on mobility.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Next, we&#8217;ll work<strong> the cardiovascular system<\/strong>. We&#8217;ll start ramping up the heat with heel-and-butt exercises and knee lifts. You can do burpees, or more active left-right movements.   The aim is to raise body temperature.  <\/p>\n\n<p>Next, we&#8217;ll work on the muscles. The various muscular exercises must include sheathing. It&#8217;s ultra-important to have a strong core!   Then, various <strong>strengthening exercises<\/strong> for the lower and upper limbs, such as squats, lunges&#8230;  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>The 4th point will work on the <strong>nervous system<\/strong>and therefore <strong>coordination<\/strong>. To achieve coordination, I take the example of a kick: the idea is to stay on one foot, making different movements to maintain this sheathing and achieve the necessary coordination.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s move on to point 5. It&#8217;s all about <strong>sport-specific movements<\/strong>, and what&#8217;s going to happen next during training or competition. The idea is to repeat the different movements. So if I&#8217;m going to do a punch or a kick, I&#8217;m going to do them slowly, with full awareness of the movement.    The aim is to work out the motor pattern of the movement.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Lastly, I will <strong>gradually increase the intensity<\/strong>to reach the maximum intensity that will be required in the effort that follows.  <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What simple exercises would you recommend to avoid injuries on a daily basis?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>What&#8217;s good to do outside training periods are points 1 and 5 of what we&#8217;ve just explained. Namely, working on mobility (flexibility) and slow exercises. Then, specific movements.   So the slow work on <strong>engine control<\/strong> is going to be super important.  <\/p>\n\n<p>Some people like to vary, doing an exercise one day, another the next day, another on the next day etc., while others will do the same exercise and the same movement for a week in order to integrate it properly. Here again, there are two different ways of working. One prefers variety, the other repetition.    <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not better or worse, it&#8217;s just that everyone has to choose their own preference.  <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What role does equipment (protective gear, shoes, tatami mats, etc.) play in prevention?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Materials are becoming increasingly high quality, as is the design of the equipment, so it would be a real shame to miss out, and that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daisho.be\/en\/products\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.daisho.be\/boutique\/\">Daisho<\/a>!  <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A word about nutrition or hydration? Does this have an impact on recovery and prevention?  <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Very clearly! I would even add a third point, which is sleep, to complete <strong>the nutrition-hydration-sleep triptych<\/strong> which is really the keystone.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>If we look at hydration, the body is made up mainly of water. A small dehydration of one to 2% already poses problems for the body, and from 3% water loss, i.e. 3% of body weight, the risk of injury is clearly increased.   <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><em>A little tip on hydration:<\/em> it&#8217;s better to drink a little and often than a lot all at once. So saying to yourself, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t drink for most of the day, I&#8217;m going to drink 1L to make up for it&#8221; doesn&#8217;t work, because your body can&#8217;t take it all in at once. So remember to break up your fluid intake.    <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Then, in terms of nutrition, it&#8217;s clearly what&#8217;s going to provide the energy and fuel. We used the analogy of a car, and nutrition is the fuel we put inside it. This fuel is important not only for energy, but also for repairing any damage that may have been caused.    <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>And finally, the sleep part is also ultra-important. We often hear that we need 7 to 9 hours of sleep. But rather than calculating sleep in terms of quantity, it&#8217;s more useful to <strong>calculate it in terms of quality<\/strong>. We need to respect the circadian rhythm, i.e. the day and night rhythm.    And a little tip on sleep: going to bed and getting up at regular times helps to rebalance the circadian rhythm, with the production of melatonin hormones, which enable you to fall asleep, and, in the morning, the production of cortisol hormones, which enable you to wake up.  <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>So sleep cycles also play a role?  <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Yes, yes, of course. In the different cycles, we have what&#8217;s known as light sleep, and in deeper sleep, we have <strong>R sleep <\/strong>(rapid high movement). This is a moment of sleep in which we have small, rapid eye movements. As for deep sleep and REM sleep, the two parts of sleep that we&#8217;ll call &#8220;recuperative sleep&#8221;, it&#8217;s these moments of sleep that are the most useful in our sleep period.    So you can sleep very well for a very long time but not have much <strong>REM<\/strong> or deep sleep, and therefore not have had a satisfactory recovery.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Comparing your sleep with mine or someone else&#8217;s is not yet reliable enough. On the other hand, comparing your own sleep one night with another, and especially one period with another, allows you to see whether the changes you&#8217;ve made in your daily life are having an effect or not.   <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Do you have a personal tip or &#8220;ritual&#8221; that you apply systematically before and after a workout?  <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve talked a lot so far about the body, but there&#8217;s the whole mental aspect that&#8217;s also going to be important.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Personally, I have a<strong>mental anchoring<\/strong> ritual that enables me to switch from &#8220;work&#8221; mode to &#8220;sport&#8221; mode, because very often you&#8217;re in the middle of the day, you&#8217;re working, hop, grab your bag and off you go to training, and you notice that a lot of people are actually training but aren&#8217;t quite there yet. So mentally, it&#8217;s very important to be in the moment when you&#8217;re doing it. <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>My personal ritual is the moment when I tie the belt, the moment when I tighten the belt. For me, feeling this tension is associated with the transition from &#8220;work&#8221; to &#8220;sport&#8221; mode. It can be different for everyone. Some may, for example, take a deep breath and then take a deep breath. Some close their eyes and then open them again. Some have a specific movement or noise. Whatever ritual suits you best, remembering to be present in what you&#8217;re doing is ultra-important.        <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A final word of advice for those who want to progress while avoiding injury?  <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p>Take care of your machine, sleep well, eat well, drink well and remember to have a check-up at the osteopath&#8217;s at least twice a year to prevent the bucket from overflowing, so that you can empty it first.  <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Great! Many thanks for your answers and your welcome.  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