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What is a strain?

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A stretching or tearing of a muscle or tissue connecting muscle to bone. tendon

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What is a sprain?

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A stretching or tearing of ligaments, the fibrous tissue that connects bones and joints.

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What is a contusion?

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A region of injured tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured; a bruise

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What is a fracture?

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A complete or partial break in a bone

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Five different types of fractures

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Stable, open, transverse, oblique, comminuted.

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What is a ligament?

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A short band of tough flexible fibrous connective tissue that connects the two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint. Bone to bone.

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What is a tendon?

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A flexible but inelastic cord of strong fibrous collagen tissue attaching a muscle to a bone. Muscle to bone

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What is epiphysis?

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The end of a long bone, initially growing separately from the shaft. Growth plate.

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How is a contusion

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The injury causes tiny blood vessel’s called capillaries to burst, and the blood gets tracked below the skin surface.

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What is a luxation?

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An injury or a joint is forced out of a normal position. Dislocation.

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What is a subluxation

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A partial dislocation

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What criteria is used to determine an injury?

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An instance of being injured

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What is a chronic injury? Give an example.

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An injury that lasts a long time. Example arthritis.

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What is an injury? Give an example.

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An injury that happens quickly. Example bone fracture

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What is a catastrophic injury?

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An injury that can be deadly. Example injury to spinal cord

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What is critical force

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Magnitude of a single force that affects the structure.

17
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What is a hematoma?

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A solid swelling of clotted blood within the tissues

18
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Examples of collision sports.

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Football, ice hockey, lacrosse.

19
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Give three examples of contacts sports.

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Basketball, field hockey, girls lacrosse, soccer, wrestling

20
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Give three examples of the limited contact sports

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Baseball, sealed events, softball, volleyball.

21
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Give three examples of non-contact sports

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badminton, bowling, field events, golf, track, cross country, tennis.

22
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What is a risk factor?

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Any attributes, characteristic, or exposure to an individual that increases the likelihood of developing a disease or injury.

23
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What is an intristic risk factor? Given example.

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Internal to the body. Example dislocation of shoulder

24
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What is an extrinsic risk factor? Give an example.

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External to the body. Example field conditions or other players

25
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What does epidemiology mean?

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The branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.

26
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What are the severity of sprains?

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Grade one mild stretching of the ligament without joint instability. Grade 2 partial tear or rapture of the ligament with instability of the joint. Grade 3 severe sprain, complete rupture of the ligament with instability of the joint

27
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What are the severity is of a strain?

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Grade one mild strain. grade two moderate strain. grade 3 tears muscle all the way through, severe strain

28
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What are myosotis ossificans?

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Can enter as a complication of not treating a contusion correctly and he thought a small growth of bure within the muscle

29
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What is in avulsion fracture?

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An injury to the bone in a location where a tendon or ligament attaches to the bone. the tendon or ligament pulls off a piece of the bone.

30
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What is a comminuted fracture?

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A break or splinter of the bone into more than two fragments

31
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What is it called when a dislocation is put back in place? Who should do this?

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Reduction. Authorized person, Dr., trainer.

32
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Is an ACL tear and a cute, chronic, or catastrophic injury?

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Acute

33
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Is biceps tendinitis and they’re cute, chronic, or catastrophic injury?

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Chronic

34
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Is a cervical vertabral fracture acute, chronic, or catastrophic injury?

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Catastrophic

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