Week 1

Question 1

What are the three type of injury classification?

Answer 1

Direct, Indirect or Overuse

Question 2

What is Soft Tissue and What type of injuries occur?

Answer 2

• All Muscle, ligaments, Tendons, Skin, Organs

- Bruise/Contusion, Sprain,Strain

Question 3

-What is hard tissue and what types of injuries occur?

Answer 3

• Bone or teeth

- Breaks or dislocations

Question 4

What are Intrinsic and Extrinsic factors of injury?

Answer 4

Intrinsic = Age, sex, gender, fitness, body comp, skill
Extrinsic = Other humans, protective equipment, environment

Question 5

What occurs during the first stage of the injury cycle?

Answer 5

Prevention - The combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors increase the chance of injury compared to one in isolation. This stage is about minimising the chance of injury from occuring

Question 6

What is the second stage of the injury cycle?

Answer 6

Incident phase - Assess the injury
Non Responsive = DRSABCD
ON-Field = STOP
OFF-Field = TOTAPS

Question 7

What is STOP?

Answer 7

S - stop athlete from moving or participation
T - talk to the athlete, what happened? where does it hurt? can you keep playing?
O - Observe body language, injury site for swelling or discolouration, compare to normal
P - Prevent further injury with TOTAPS

Question 8

What is TOTAPS?

Answer 8

Talk
Observe
Touch
Active movement
Passive movement
Skills

Question 9

What is the third stage of the injury cycle?

Answer 9

Protection
Elevation
Avoid inflammatory products
Compression
Education
Load
Optimisation
Vascularisation
Exercise