Dragon boating is a physically demanding sport involving repetitive, forceful paddling motions that stress the body, leading to various injuries.
This post is not designed to scare anyone away from the sport. Develop a good technique, follow your warmup, cool down and stretching routines and use the right equipment and you should be fine.
But so that you can go into this sport with your eyes wide open and know what to do when that niggling injury is there, I have created a detailed overview of common injuries in dragon boating, focusing on musculoskeletal and non-musculoskeletal types, their causes, symptoms, and treatments.
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