Sport Injury Terminology

Question 1

Sport injury

Answer 1

Damage to the tissues of the body that is a result of sport, exercise or PA

Question 2

Physical activity

Answer 2

moving or using body in numerous forms of activity (outdoors, fitness exercise, playing, training, PE)

Question 3

Acute injury

Answer 3

Sudden onset
Single event
Characterized by immediate bleeding

Question 4

Overuse injury

Answer 4

gradual onset - cumulative

degenerative - aging

Question 5

Direct contact
Indirect
Noncontact

Answer 5

Direct blow to injured area

Contact to the body other than injured area

No contact with others or object; poor movement control

Question 6

Stiffness
Yield Point
Creep

Answer 6

Tissue ability to resist load (high stiffness = greater elasticity)

Limit threshold of elasticity and onto plastic behaviour

Property or shape deformation of tissues that occurs with constant load application over time

Question 7

Mechanical Forces

Answer 7

Compression
Tension
Shearing
Bending: a combination fo compression and tension
Torsion: twisting of ends of structure in opposite directions