Chapter 6 Flashcards
What were the Paidotribes during greek and roman times?
They were like the modern day athletic trainers
Why did greek and romans have a type of athletic trainers?
Because they cared so much about sports and wanted to learn more and take care of the athletes
Who was Galen in greek and Roman times?
He was a physicians for the gladiators. And wrote broadly about medicine and athletics.
How does the NATA support Athletic Trainers?
Help with development as an AT, how they function, helps get you licenced, free CE credits, how to care for people
Who is the father of orthopedics and wrote the first orthopaedia in 1741?
Nicholas Andry
What are the primary responsibilities of Athletic Trainers? (6)
- Prevent injuries (physical exams, environmental issues, etc.)
- Recognize, evaluate, and assess athletic injuries
- Be a first responder
- Immediate care to injuries
- Treatment and rehab
- Organized and administration (legal and insurance issues, working with team physician, providing coverage)
Who creates a consensus statement?
A panel of experts on that topic that create the statement (The NATA is a good example)
What do the consensus statements inform athletic trainers about how to ________ athletes?
to provide the best medical care for athletes (the athletes need and how to best take care of them medically)
What is cyrotherapy?
Apply cold to the body
What is cyrokinetics?
Where you cool the body part to analgesia (numbness) and then you exercise it to increase the ROM
What is thermotherapy?
Where you apply heat to the body
What is an ultrasound? (regards to helping recover from injury)
Deep and heats tissues to increase tissue temperature by high frequency pulses or sounds
What is electrotherapy?
Send shock waves through the body and excites the nerve tissue
What is a massage?
Manipulation of soft tissue (rubbing stuff out)
What is traction? (in regards to therapy)
It uses mechanical force and separates joints in the body to relieve pressure in them
What is intermittent compression
Increase pressure controls or reduces swelling and reduces edema (squeezes on a body part)
What are the primary responsibilities of a team physician? (8)
- Work with the athletic trainer
- work with other sports medicine people
- Oversee medical history of athletes
- diagnose injury
- decide if an athlete can participate in games or not
- attend practice and games
- academic program medical director
- Commit to sports and athletes
What is an arthroscopic surgery?
An invasive procedure that uses a camera to go into the knee and repair it. Pumps fluid in there to see better. Only does a small cut.
What is an autologous graft?
It is where they take some tissue or something from your OWN body and put it somewhere else to repair something in the body (like an ACL tear) IT IS FROM YOUR OWN BODY.
Why is an autologous graft prefered?
Reduce risk of your body rejecting the graft
What is an ACL repair? (explain it)
It is an arthroscopic surgery that uses a graft replacement for the torn ACL in the knee.
Why are females more at risk of tearing an ACL?
Girls and women generally have less muscle strength and endurance at the knee than boys and men. The ligament is more relaxed and Girls have a more inward knee tilt and structure as well
How do you repair an Ulnar collateral ligament?
You replace the ligament in the medial elbow with a tendon from somewhere else in the body
Explain Autologous chondrocyte implantation
It is used to repair defects in the articular cartilage in joints by injecting cultured chondrocytes to the cartilage that got taken from a different part of the body
