Sports Medicine

Question 1

Ways to classify sports injuries

Answer 1

Direct and indirect, sort and hard tissue, overuse

Question 2

Soft tissue

Answer 2

Damage to all body tissue other than bones and teeth e.g. tears, sprains, blisters

Question 3

Hard tissue

Answer 3

Damage to bones and teeth e.g. fractures and dislocations

Question 4

Overuse

Answer 4

caused by repetitive and damaging forces

Question 5

Soft tissue injuries

Answer 5

tears, sprains, confusions + skin abrasions, lacerations, blisters + inflammatory response

Question 6

Tear

Answer 6

Occurs in soft tissue where there has been an excessive stretching of tissue

Question 7

sprain

Answer 7

stretching of the joint capsule and its connecting liagments

Question 8

Strain

Answer 8

Muscle fibres of tendons are torn to some degree or overstretched

Question 9

Contusion

Answer 9

caused by a sudden blow to the body (bruise)

Question 10

Management of soft tissue injuries

Answer 10

RICER

Question 11

No HARM

Answer 11

apply during first 24 hours of soft tissue injury to help avoid blood vessel dilation. heat, alcohol, running, massage

Question 12

3 stages of the inflammatory response (soft tissue)

Answer 12

inflammatory response, repair, remodel

Question 13

Hard tissue injuries

Answer 13

Fractures and dislocations

Question 14

Assessment of injuries

Answer 14

TOTAPS

Question 15

Children and young athletes asthma

Answer 15

Airways are exposed to certain trigger, becoming narrow and making it hard to breath.

Question 16

Hypoglycemia

Answer 16

Low blood glucose, not enough insulin entering the body’s cells to produce energy

Question 17

Hyperglycemia

Answer 17

High blood glucose with too much insulin being produced

Question 18

Epilepsy

Answer 18

condition of recuring seizures due to a disturbance of the electochemical activity in the brain

Question 19

Overuse injuries implications to avoid

Answer 19

Variety of sports, rest periods and recovery

Question 20

Thermoregulation

Answer 20

Less fluid in their body and more opportunity to lose fluid through large skin surface area. Less sweat glands and muscular development for hot and cold

Question 21

Appropriateness of resistance training

Answer 21

Closely supervised with correct technique used

Question 22

Adult and aged athletes

Answer 22

Heart conditions, fractures/ bone density, Flexbility/ joint mobilidy

Question 23

Female athletes

Answer 23

Eating disorders, iron deficiency, bone density and pregnancy