Sports Medicine Flashcards
(21 cards)
Crit question 2?
How does sports medicine address the demands of specific athletes?
Crit question 3?
What role do preventative actions play in enhancing the wellbeing of the athlete?
Crit question 4?
How is injury rehabilitation managed?
Dot points for crit question 1?
Ways to classify sport injuries
Soft tissue injuries
Hard tissue injuries
Assessment of injuries
Dot points for crit question 2?
Children and young athletes
Adult and aged athletes
Female athletes
Dot points for crit question 3?
Physical preparation
Sports policy and the sports environment
Environmental considerations
Taping and bandaging
Dot points for crit question 4?
Rehabilitation procedures
Return to play
Ways to classify sports injuries?
- direct and indirect
- soft and hard
- overuse
Soft tissue injuries?
- tears, sprains, contusions
- skin abrasions,lacerations, blisters
- inflammatory response
Hard tissue injuries?
- fractures
- dislocations
Assessment of injuries?
-TOTAPS
Children and young athletes?
- medical conditions (asthma, diabetes, elpelepsy)
- overuse injuries (stress fractures)
- thermoregulation
- appropriateness of resistance training
Adult and aged athletes?
- heart conditions
- fractures / bone density
- flexibility / mobility
Female athletes?
- eating disorders
- iron deficiency
- bone density
- pregnancy
Physical preparation?
- pre-screening
- skill and technique
- physical fitness
- warm up, stretching, cool down
Sports policy and the sports environment?
- rules of sport and activities
- modified rules for children
- matching of opponents
- use of protective equipment
- safe grounds equipment and facilities
Environmental considerations?
- temperature regulation (radiation, convection, conduction, evaporation)
- climate considerations (thwarp)
- guidelines for fluid intake
- acclimatisation
Taping and bandaging?
- preventative taping
- taping for isolation of injury
- bandaging for immediate treatment for injury
Rehabilitation procedures?
- progressive mobilisation
- graduated exercise (stretching, conditioning, total body fitness)
- training
- use of heat and cold
Return to play?
- indicators of readiness for return to play (pain free, degree of mobilisation)
- monitoring progress (pre-testing, post-testing)
- Physiological readiness
- specific warm up and cool down
- return to play policies and procedures
- ethical considerations (pressure to participate, use of painkillers)
Crit question 1?
How are sports injuries classified and managed?
