Sports Medicine Syllabus Dot Points

Question 1

Ways to Classify sports injuries

Answer 1

• Direct and Indirect
• Soft and Hard tissue
• Overuse

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Question 2

Soft Tissue Injuries

Answer 2

• Tears, Sprains, Contusions
• Skin abrasions, lacerations, blisters
• Infalammatory response

Question 3

Hard Tissue Injuries

Answer 3

• Fractures
• Dislocation

Question 4

Assessment of Injuries

Answer 4

TOTAPS (Talk, Observe, Touch, Active, and Passive movement, Skills test)

Question 5

Children and Young Athletes

Answer 5

• Medical conditions (asthma, diabetes, epilepsy)
• Overuse injuries (stress fractures)
• Thermoregulation
• Appropriateness of resistance training

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Question 6

Adult and Aged Athletes

Answer 6

• Heart conditions
• Fractures/Bone density
• Flexibility/Joint mobility

Question 7

Female Athletes

Answer 7

• Eating Disorders
• Iron deficiency
• Bone density
• Pregnancy

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Question 8

Physical preparation

Answer 8

• Pre-screening
  -skill and technique
• Physical fitness
• Warm-up, stretching and cooldown

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Question 9

Sports Policy and the sports environment

Answer 9

• Rules of sports and activities
• modified rules for children
• matching of opponents, (e.g. growth and development, skill level)
• use of protective equipment
• safe grounds, equipment and facilities

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Question 10

Environmental considerations

Answer 10

• Temperature regulation (convection, radiation, conduction, evaporation)
• Climatic conditions (Temperature, humidity, wind, rain, altitude, pollution)
• guidelines for fluid intake
• acclimatisation

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Question 11

Taping and Bandaging

Answer 11

• Preventative taping
• taping for isolation of injury
• bandaging for immediate treatment of injury

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Question 12

Rehabilitation procedures

Answer 12

• Progressive mobilisation
• Gradual exercise (stretching, conditioning, total body fitness)
• Training
• Use of heat and cold

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Question 13

Return to play

Answer 13

• Indicator of readiness for return to play (pain free, degree of mobility)
• monitoring progress (pre-test and post-test)
• psychological readiness
• specific warm-up procedures
• ethical considerations e.g. pressure to participate, use of painkillers

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