Health Flashcards
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Are intended so students like you can be
familiar with the various occupations or
profession in the medical filed and allied
health services.
Health Careers
Is an individual’s plan to create a career
choice, growing in the chosen career or
making a career shift which involves the
vital step of self-assessment.
Health Career Planning
Components in making a health career plan
Self-Assessment, Career Exploration, Decision Making, Plan of Action
Is a stretch or tear of a ligament, the band of connective tissues that joins the end of one bone with another. Usually are caused by trauma such as a fall or a blow to the body that knocks a joint out of position and, in the worst case, ruptures the supporting ligaments.
Sprain
Areas most vulnerable to sprain
Ankles, knees, wrist
A twist, pull or tear of a muscle or tendon - a cord of tissue connecting muscle to bone. It is an acute, non-contact injury that results from over stretching or over contraction.
Strain
ITBS meaning
Iliotibial band syndrome
ACL, LCL, PCL, MCL meaning
Anterior Cruciate Ligament
Lateral Cruciate Ligament
Posterior Cruciate Ligament
Medial Cruciate Ligament
When two bones that come together to form a joint become separated, the joint is
described as this. Contact sports such as football, basketball and lacrosse, as well as high impact sports that can result in
excessive stretching or falling, cause the
majority of this. This joint is an emergency situation that requires medical treatments.
Dislocation
Is a break in the bone that can occur from either a quick, one-time injury to the bone (acute) or from repeated stress to
the bone over time (stress)
Fracture
HARM meaning
Avoid it: Heat, Alcohol, Running, Massage
PRICE meaning
Follow it: Protection, Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate
