Soc10:Preventing Injury and types of injury Flashcards
What are the 5 main ways to prevent injury?
- Selecting appropriate training methods
- Warming up/ cooling down
- Protective equipment/ clothing
- Checking equipment and facilities
- Playing to the rules and competition
Why is Checking equipment and facilities important to preventing injury?
-organisers and officials, as well as participants, need to check for safety before an activity or competition.
Organisers should check that: -facilities are safe and secure
-any equipment is in good condition
Why is playing to rules and competition important to preventing injury?
- all games and sports have rukes so there can be fair competition.
- rules help ensure player safety. If rules are broken participants are punished
Offences can include: proffesional fouls
(Over agression can threaten a players career)
Why is protective equipment/ clothing important to preventing injury?
-wear protective equipment e.g a helmet in sports like cricket or american football.
The purpose is to protect the cranium and brain from concussion and long term injury.
Why is warming and cooling down important to preventing injury?
- one of the main reasonsfor warning up is that the muscles gradually help to prevent injury and makes your workputs more effective.
- cooling down after exercise or sport gradually lowers your body temperature, heart rate and breathing rate. This helps to slowly return your body to its resting state.
- if exercise ends sharply, blood pressure also drops, which could cause dizziness.
(Cooling down serves NOT to prevent injury but to disperse lacic acid-preventing soreness and aches.)
Why is using the correct methord of training important to preventing injury?
-if you are planning a PEP you must make sure it is for you and is planned for your “individual needs”
- apply the FITT principle
- specificity (training for particular activity and using the appropriate training methords)
- progressive overload
- rest and recovery(avoid reversiblity)
- avoid overtraining
What is an acute injury?
A sudden injury caused by a traumatic event
What is an overse injury?
An injury sustained by “repeated action”
What are the 8 types of injuries?
- sprain
- strain
- dislocation
- concussions
- abrasions
- soft tissue injury
- fractures
- torn cartilage
What is concussion?
What:An injury caused by a blow to the head, it can happen in many sports
Symptoms:-headaches,-weakness, -loss of co-ordination or balance, confusion, slurred speech
Protocol: under 19= 23 days without any symptoms
Sports:rugby
What is a fracture?
A broken or cracked bone that can occur from a blow
What are the 4 types of fractures?
In closed: the skin over the break is not damaged
Compound fractures: the broken bone protrudes through the skin
Simple fracture: take place in one line, with no displacement of the bone
Stress fracture:(overuse injury) they can happen as a result as a result of fatigue
What are dislocations?
What: When a bone at a joint is forced out of its normal position. Often occurs as a result of a hard blow which causes one if the bones to be displaced
Symptoms: demormity and swelling of the joint, which is locked out of position
What is torn cartilage?
Damage to cartilage often occurs due to long term wear and tear from long-term overuse
(Cartilage is a firm elastic substance which lines adjoining bones. It absorbs the impact of bones while reducing the fruction during sport/activity)
Example: wicket keeper
What are soft tissue injuries?
(Joints are where 2 or more bones meet. )
They are partucular prone injury because movement past the range cab tear or pull tendons or ligaments
