SPORTS INJURIES

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SPORTS INJURIES

• 1 Joint injuries
• 2 Dislocations
• 3 Torn cartilage
• 4 Tennis elbow
• 5 Soft tissue injuries
• 6 Fractures

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SPORTS INJURIES

• 7 Skin damage (cuts, bruises, grazes, blisters)
• 8 Hypothermia
• 9 Dehydration
• 10 Unconsciousness and concussion

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1 JOINT INJURIES

• E.g. twisted ankle torn ligaments and/or
  tendons

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2 DISLOCATIONS

• Bone is displaced due to a hard impact e.g. a
  rugby tackle or collision

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3 TORN CARTILAGE

• Usually caused by severe twisting
• How is it treated?

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R.I.C.E.

• R REST
• I ICE
• C COMPRESSION
• E ELEVATION

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4 TENNIS ELBOW

• Inflammation of tendons
• Overuse injury
• Doing too much
• too young

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5 SOFT TISSUE INJURIES

• Pulled muscle
• Torn muscle
• Strained muscle

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• Rapid and repeated muscle contraction can lead
  to tears
• Sudden stretches/overstretching/turning and
  twisting
• Insufficient warm up
• Think of actions that are continually repeated
  in your sport
• How are these injuries treated?

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TREATMENT

• R.I.C.E.
• TASK Describe the r.i.c.e. process in your own
  words

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6 FRACTURES

• A broken or cracked bone
• Caused by direct contact give an example from
  your sport.
• SYMPTOMS
• Pain
• Immobility of limb
• Tender
• Swelling
• Deformity (skin may or may not be broken)

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OPEN FRACTURE

• Bone protrudes through skin

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CLOSED FRACTURE

• Deformity but
• skin is not broken

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TYPES OF FRACTURE
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TYPES OF FRACTURES (CONT)
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7 SKIN DAMAGE

• CUTS
• TASK How do
• you treat a cut?
• (see page139)
• and complete
• task 1 on
• page 139

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GRAZES BRUISES

• Can contain grit or dirt
• Clean out
• Sterile dressing

• Dark colour
• Internal bleeding
• Caused by blows
• Broken blood vessels

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BLISTERS

• Skin bubbles
• Often caused by badly fitting shoes friction
• Never pop a blister can get infected

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8 HYPOTHERMIA

• Body temperature drops below 35 degrees
  centigrade
• Result of extreme cold usually mountaineers or
  shipwrecked!
• Symptoms shivering
• cold, pale skin
• irrational behaviour
• slow pulse

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TREATING HYPOTHERMIA

• Raise body temperature
• Remove wet clothes
• Give warm clothes
• Bath and hot drinks

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DEHYDRATION

• Loss of fluid by
• Sweating
• Urine
• Water vapour breathed out
• Replace fluid regularly with water
• Loss of electrolytes leads to low glycogen levels
  less energy available

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UNCONCIOUSNESS AND CONCUSSION

• CONCUSSION
• Caused by a blow to the head common in boxing
• Can be delayed for several hours
• SYMPTOMS shallow breathing
• vomiting
• pale face
• pulse race
• disorientation
• Seek medical help rugby rules prevent a
  concussed player for playing for the next 6
  weeks

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UNCONCIOUSNESS AND CONCUSSION

• Task list the possible causes of unconsciousness
• D Danger
• R Response
• A Airway
• B Breathing
• C Circulation
• TASK Briefly describe each of the above

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THE RECOVERY POSITION

• TASK Put your partner in the recovery position
• Prevents vomit swallowing
• Prevents tongue swallowing
• Keeps airway open

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SKIN INFECTIONS

• ATHLETES FOOT
• Caused by a fungus
• Caught from wet floors e.g. swimming pools and
  changing rooms
• Easily transmitted
• Prevent by using clean socks and trainers whilst
  applying foot powder

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• Causes dry flaky skin between the toes

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VERRUCAES

• A VIRAL INFECTION
• Caught in swimming pools and wet floors
• Wear special socks to avoid infection