Lecture 2: Injury Prevention and EAP Flashcards

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Internal Risk Factors

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PREDISPOSES an athlete to injury

  • age, sex, body composition, playing type, health, physical fitness, anatomy, skill level, psychological factors

Can’t control some of them like age and sex

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External Risk Factors

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make an athlete more SUSCEPTIBLE to injury

  • sports factors (coaching, rules, refs)
  • protective equipment
  • sports equipment
  • environment

Can control most but not all like opponent behaviour

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Inciting event

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  • playing situation
  • player/opponent behaviour
  • gross biomechanical description (whole body)
  • detailed biomechanical description (jt.)
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What leads to injury?

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Predisposed athlete (internal) + susceptible athlete (external) + inciting event = injury

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Injury Prevention

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minimizing activity related injury

improve BENEFIT : RISK ratio
- ex. revising concussion protocol, making targeting penalties = decrease in injuries

Can be characterized as primary, secondary and tertiary

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Primary Prevention

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ELIMINATING the event (prevent the injury from happening)

Can focus on 1 of 3 (or all 3) dimensions
1. ATHLETE (technique, neuromuscular function, conditioning)

  1. SURROUNDINGS (floor/surface friction, rules, type of drill, coaching)
  2. EQUIPMENT (shoe friction, protective properties)
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Secondary Prevention

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DIMINISHING the effect of an incident
- can be things to protect an athlete if an injurious situation arises

Ex.
- sports equipment (helmets, shin pads, taping/bracing)
- training proper falling technique, conditioning to strengthen structures so they can tolerate increased force (ex. strengthening C-spine muscles to stabilize head/neck)

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Tetriary Prevention

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REDUCING consequences of injury?
- How do we improve outcomes?

  • Can include things like emergency medical coverage, first aid equipment and rehab
  • teaching athletes to know body and report injury
  • having coaches certified in first aid, EAP, Return to Play
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Levels of Prevention

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Primary: I won’t get hit at all
Secondary: I’ll get hit but I won’t get hurt
Tertiary: I’ll get hurt but how will I make better outcomes?

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Comprehensive model for injury causation and injury prevention

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Primary prevention comes BEFORE inciting event
Secondary prevention comes AT inciting event
Tertiary prevention comes AFTER injury

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EAP

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Emergency Action Planning

A document to be followed in the event of a medical emergency which outlines MUTUALLY AGREED upon areas of responsibility and methods of delivery via step-by-step procedure

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Civil Liability

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When a person engages in conduct that result s in harm to another private individual

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Who does an EAP protect?

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The coaches and team

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Unintentional Torts

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When a person should have foreseen that his/her actions would cause harm

  • a person will be liable of a tort only if he/she intends to do harm to others OR
  • if the person is negligent in that reasonable precautions are not taken to prevent foreseeable harm
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Elements of Negligence

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Legal liability for negligence is dependent on 3 elements:

  1. A duty of care
  2. A breach of standard care (not planning)
  3. Damage or injury that results from the breach
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Why do we have EAPs?

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Gives us a bunch of info:

where? who? how? what?

They should be rehearsed to improve response and detect deficiencies

They should also be debriefed as it is a living document that might change throughout the year

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Who should be involved in EAP planning?

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EVERYONE

Front office, security/facility staff, medical staff, players

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What should an EAP answer?

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Where and when?
- event, dates, name of complex/arena, specific field/ice surface name

Who and how?
- break into 3 main roles (charge, control and call person)

What?
- what do I have to help me?

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Charge Person

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Runs the show

  • decides when to active EAP/EMS (do you trust responder?)
  • what happens in case of spinal or life-thretening condition? (therapist or physician at head?)
  • who best to monitor and triage?
  • who ahs best rapport w/ athlete? often therapist
  • what to do w/ helmets/shoulder pads? CPR? Spinals?
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Control Person

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Keeps people back and assists charge person

  • where will players/coaches go? use them or get them away
  • what if it happens on the bench/locker room/practice?
  • where do players keep their meds?
  • what happens in case of spinal or other life-threatening? where is call person?
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Call Person

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  • what is the signal to get to the playing surface?
  • what number do I call? 911? Different country, on campus?
  • what information do I need to tell them? where to meet them? will access be clear?
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Emergency Phone Info

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  • type of emergency situation/suspected injury
  • present condition (unconscious, non-breathing, etc)
  • current assistance being given (CPR, AED, Boarding, etc)
  • telephone number
  • location of emergency
  • entry limitations (stair only access, drive in, etc)