Fractures
A break of a bone.
What is a fracture?
Bony structures in the body.
What is skeletal tissue?
Characterized by rapid onset, resulting from a traumatic event.
What is an acute injury?
What injury results from direct blows to the body surface, causing a compression of the underlying tissue?
Contusions
What piece of equipment related to soccer has been found to play a direct role in the majority of deaths in this sport?
Moveable soccer goals
Forcible tearing away or separation.
What is an avulsion fracture?
Includes muscles, fascia, tendons, joint capsules, ligaments, blood vessels, and nerves.
What is soft tissue?
Characterized by a slow, insidious onset, implying a gradual development of structural damage.
What is a chronic injury?
Complete dislocation of a joint.
What is luxation?
Sports that involve intentional contact between participants.
What is a contact/collision sport?
Small crack for break in a bone related to excessive, repeated overloads; also known as overuse fractures or march fractures.
What is a stress fracture?
Function to produce force and motion.
What is a muscle?
Injury to a joint and surrounding structures, primarily ligaments and or joint capsules.
What is a sprain?
Partial or incomplete dislocation of an articulation.
What is Subluxation?
What is a limited contact sport?
A category of fractures that involves the growth plate.
What is a Salter-Harris fracture?
What is a ligament?
Injury involving muscles and tendons or the junction between the two.
What is a strain?
The chance of this injury increases with these factors: number of pitches, type of pitch, pitching mechanics, and physical condition of youth pitcher.
What is Little League elbow?
Sports that typically do not involve contact between participants.
What is a non-contact sport?
S-, A-, L, TE, R
What is straight across, above, lower, through everything, crush?
What connects muscles to bone?
What are tendons?
Injury involving damage to the brain and or spinal cord that presents a potentially life-threatening situation or the possibility of permanent disability.
What is a Catastrophic Injury?
Formation of a bone-like structure within muscles tissues, often related to severe contusion.
What is Myositis Ossificans?