Injuries in Sports
Risk vs. Benefit
Risk Management Models
Risk Cases
100

According to Chapter 4 on Warning, Waiver, and Informed consent, what activity had more catastrophic injuries per 100,000 participants (1982-2010) than football.

Chearleading (pyramids and throws) Note: College chearleading accounts for about half of these injuries and there are far less cheerleaders in college.

100

The U.S. suicide rate for teenagers is doing this.

What is rising or going up?

100

The name of the risks management model where each level of protection has some holes and if all of these holes line up an accident happens.

What is the Swiss Cheese Model of Risk Management?
100

The specific legal term the judge used for the reason that the high school sophomore football player won (in the Thompson v Seattle Unified School District). This was the player that became quadriplegic. 

Failure to Warn

200
What are the two most common reasons for injury in baseball and softball?

What are head first slides and not wearing a helmet at the proper time.

200

Males in the united states are over 3x more likely to die by suicide because of this primarily reason that we talked about in class.

What is lonliness or lack of intimacy or lack of connection with other males?

200

The risk management model that was originally used to evaluate automobile accidents.

What is the Haddon Matrix

200

Five specific reasons discussed in class that caused Adam to become foot entrapped and take so long to be rescued.

What were the latent oversight by the president of the college, the participant to instructor ratio, the poor fitting PFD, the instructors not adjusting to the increase in water, the lack of training by instructors in swift water rescue, Adam standing up in the water, teaching the group how to swim a rapid in separate groups...

300
Track and field sport that accounts for most injuries and the reason why.

What is Pole vaulting and missing the pit.

300

The fifth benefit of risk taking that Craig Challen talks about in his Ted Talk. Craig Challen was the diver that helped save the Thai Soccer Team.  

What is that risk taking can be some of the best times in your life?
300

The X axis and Y axis titles for the chart used in class to prioritize which risks to address. 

X (orizontal) axis is impact and the Y (vertical) urgency

300

The number of Liverpool Fans that died in the crushing incident in Hillsbough.

What was 94 died in the stadium. A 95th person died when life-support was removed. A 96th person died 4 years later. And a 97th person died much later from complications. Any of these numbers is acceptable.

400

The two most common indirect injuries that cause the most catastrophic injuries in sports.

What are cardiac arrest and heat exhaustion?

400

The way that Tyler Karow takes positive risks. This person was in a video that was not required for this class, but offered as another perspective on the positive benefits of risk.

What is rock climbing?
400

The two different pathways that cause failure in the swiss cheese model for risk management. 

What are Latent and Active pathways?
400

Too many people were let into this during the Hillsborough crushing incident and this caused the crushing to occur.

What is the central pens (3 & 4). Will accept "central pen".

500

Years that Football had an average of 20 quadraplegic injuries.

1971-1975

500

According to the aritcle "Adolescents Take Risks, Too" that we read in this class these are three of the four major benefits of positive risk taking.

provides opportunity for personal agency

provides opportunity to gain self-confidence

provides opportunity to develop new skills

provides opportunity to develop resilience

500

The four columns of the Haddon Matrix Risk Management Model.

What are People, Vehicle, Environment, and Social/Cultural Environment.

500

In the landmark case in soccer the defendent kicked a goalkeeper in the head and lost the law suite based on this rulling.

What is the rulling that the "athlete had a duty to play by the rules" of the game and this must be taught and enforced by coaches.

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