3.2.1.3 - Injury prevention and rehabilitation Flashcards
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What are the two types of injury?
- Acute
- Chronic
What are acute injuries?
- sudden/immediate
- severe pain
- restricted movement
- swelling around injured site
- unable to bear weight
What are the 4 types of acute injuries?
- fractures
- dislocations
- strains
- sprains
What is a fracture?
a crack/break
What are the 2 main fracture categories?
Simple (closed) fractures = clean break, does not affect skin or surrounding tissue
Compound (open) fractures = damages soft tissue/skin and high risk of infection
What are the different ways a bone can break?
comminuted: break/splinters in 3 or more places
spiral: winding break
longitudinal: breaks along the length
buckle: occurs in children - bone deforms but doesn’t break
hairline: partial fracture
greenstick: occurs in children - bone fractures but no break
What is a dislocation?
- occur at joints
- end of bones forced out of position
- often occur due to contact or a fall
- use a splint/sling to reposition
What is a strain?
- a pulled/torn muscle
- muscles fibres get stretched too far - they tear
- often caused through constant acceleration/deceleration
- high intensity/overuse of muscle groups cause strains
What is a sprain?
- sprains occur to ligaments
- ligaments - strong bands of tissue - join bone to bone
- sprains occur when ligaments stretch too far
- a sprained ankle is the most common form of sprains
Sprain and strain revision tip?
S𝘁rains happen to muscles - triceps
S𝗽rains happen to ligaments - perennial
What are chronic injuries?
- overuse injury
- pain when you compete/exercise
- dull ache when resting
- swelling
What is Achilles tendonitis?
Chronic injury
- tendons connect muscle to bone
- overuse injury
- causes pain and inflammation at the back of the ankle
- 2nd largest tendon in the body - connects gastrocnemius to the calcaneus
What is a stress fracture?
Chronic/overuse injury
- common in lower limbs as they are the weight bearing bones (feet,shins)
Often brought about by:
- a sudden increase in amount
- a sudden increase in intensity
As the muscle fatigues, it is no longer able to effectively absorb the shock of exercise
The fatigued muscle passes the stress overload to the bone
This causes cracks to occur in the bone
What is tennis elbow /lateral epicondylitis?
Chronic/overuse injury
- occurs in muscles/tendons used to straighten wrist/elbow
- becomes very sore and tender on outside of elbow
- can affect tennis players and golfers
Similar to golfers elbow which occurs on the inside of the elbow
Injury prevention methods?
Screening
Protective equipment
Warm up
Flexibility training
Taping and bracing
What is screening?
- a way to identify those at risk of complications
- prepares performers for their sport
- enhances performance
- reduces injuries
What is CRY and what does it involve?
Cardiac Risk in the Young
- form of heart screening
- uses a ECG (electrocardiogram) to asses/monitor a performer’s heart
- encouraged if you are very sporty due to the demand/strain that elite sport puts on the heart
What does screening check for?
- assesses muscle imbalances
- core strength
- range of movement
- postural alignment
- mobility
Disadvantages of screening?
- some are not 100% accurate
- problems can be missed (false negative)
- identify a problem that doesn’t exist (false positive)
- creates anxiety (health problems/injury)
What is protective equipment?
- wearing protective equipment will help reduce injury
- needs to fit correctly and meet NGB regulations
Examples of protective equipment?
football: ankle/shin pads, face mask, scrum cap
rugby: scrum cap, gum shield, body armour
hockey: pads, kickers, face mask, gloves, helmet
squash: eye guards
Benefits of a warm up and 3 stages of a warm up?
- reduces injury
- increases elasticity of muscles tissue
- increase HR/breathing rate
- increase 02/nutrient delivery to skeletal muscles
- increase muscle temperature
3 stages:
1) cardiovascular exercise
2) stretching/flexibility
3) movement patterns
What does cardiovascular exercise do in a warm up?
- prepares the body
- always before the start of every training session
- cardiovascular (jogging/skipping)
- increase HR = increase CO
- vascular shunt = direct more blood to working muscles
- increase 02 to working muscles
What stretches are in a warm up?
- flexibility exercises
- static stretching (can be active or passive)
- ballistic stretching