Injury & Rehabilitation Flashcards
What is meant by the term acute injury?
An injury that occurs at a specific, sudden moment of time
What is meant by the term chronic injury?
An injury that occurs over a longer period of time
What is a soft tissue injury?
Damage or injury to soft tissues such as tendons, ligaments, muscle (strains and sprains)
What is a hard tissue injury?
Damage to bones and cartilage
What is a fracture?
A complete or partial break in a bone due to excessive force
What is a compound (open) fracture?
The bone breaks the skin
What is a simple (closed) fracture?
The bone does not break the skin
Name 5 specific types of bone fracture…
Normal, transverse, oblique, spiral, greenstick, comminuted, segmental, avulsed, impacted, torus, linear.
What is a dislocation?
ACUTE, HARD - When one bone becomes displaced from another.
What is a sublaxation?
ACUTE, HARD - An incomplete or partial dislocation.
What is a contusion?
ACUTE, SOFT - Another name for a bruise where the blood vessels have ruptured.
What is a haemotoma?
SOFT - The damaged tissue from a contusion leads to localised bleeding.
What is a sprain?
SOFT - Overstretch, pull or tear to the joint ligaments
What is a strain?
SOFT - Overstretch, pull or tear of the muscle fibres
What is an abrasion?
Superficial damage to the skin
What is a blister?
Seperation of the layers of skin where a pocket of fluid forms
What is a concussion?
Traumatic brain injury resulting in disturbance in brain function.
What are the symptoms of concussion?
Nausea, memory loss, confusion, loss of consciousness, fear, headache, dizziness.
What physically happens to the brain during concussion?
It absorbs significant physical contact from the cranium or ricochets of one side of the cranium to the other.
What is osteoarthritis?
CHRONIC - A degenerative joint condition
where the cartilage between the
bone ends wears away.
What is a stress fracture?
A tiny crack in the bone which can become worse over time or with repeated use.
What is shin splints?
CHRONIC - Chronic shin pain at the tibialis anterior where the periosteum (surrounding membrane) and tendons become inflamed due to excessive load/use.