Classifying & Managing sports Injuries
Sports Medicine Demands on Athletes
Preventative Action - Enhancing Wellbeing of Athlete
Managing Injury Rehabilitation
Mixed Bag
100
A series of steps used to assess the extent of injury to a player and determine if they can continue playing.
What is TOTAPS?
100
A condition where there is an abnormally low level of haemoglobin, resulting in less oxygen being available to tissue. Can impact female athletes
What is "anaemia"?
100
To prevent potential injuries of an athlete, one should consider the following actions before participation in an advanced training program or sporting activity.
What are: Pre-screening (especially those at risk) Skill & Technique (temporal patterning, pacing & control) Physical Fitness (different attributes for different sports) Warm up, stretching and cool down * Can you think of an acronym to remember these?
100
Following an immobilisation injury, the following "injury management procedures" should be part of the athletes rehab before return to play.
What are: Progressive mobilisation Graduated exercise Training Use of heat and cold
100
The term for when there is a decrease in blood vessel size causing less blood to be supplied by those blood vessels as a result of hypothermia
What is "vasoconstriction"
200
Depressed, comminuted, and oblique
What are types of bone fractures
200
Children are at greater risk on hot an humid days of heat stress due to...
What is their slower acclimatisation to heat
200
The 5 components that make up the section of "Sports policy and the sports environment" are: May want to use the acronym RUMMS to help you remember
What is: Rules of sports and activities Use of protective equipment Modified rules for children Matching of opponents Safe grounds, equipment and facilities
200
Ethical issue with pain killer injections
What is it masks the pain which would otherwise tell the athlete that tissue damage is occurring
200
For every 300 meters the altitude rises about 1500 meters you can expect a decrease in aerobic capacity by this amount.
What is 3-3.5%
300
We do this during which step in RICER to decrease bleeding, reduce swelling and reduce throbbing.
What is Elevate
300
Two key points of advice for pregnant mothers who exercise are...
What is exercise in the cool of day, in moderation, and drink adequate water (to prevent thermal stress on foetus).
300
When exercising there is heat loss through convection, radiation, conduction and evaporation it the following order from greatest to least
What is: Radiation (heat lost from body to atmosphere) at 60% Evaporation (heat loss through sweating) at 25% Convection (heat from body via moving fluid) at 12% Conduction (heat from body to an object) at 3%
300
The Indicators of readiness to return to play are:
What are: Elasticity Strength Mobility Pain Free Balance * Can you think of an acronym for these?
300
The danger with athletes exercising in humid conditions is that humidity prevents this.
What is "evaporation" which can cause the athlete to overheat.
400
3 ways to classify a blow to the gastrocnemius by a hockey stick
What is soft tissue, direct, acute, contusion
400
A diabetic child participating in sport should consume more of these as part of their diet.
What is "complex carbohydrates".
400
A training technique where an athlete experiences different climatic stressors, causing physiological adaptations to occur
What is "acclimatisation"
400
Regaining the level of mental and physical fitness reached by the athlete before the injury occurred is termed...
What is "total body fitness"
400
A cool down which gradually reduces heart rate reduces vasodilatation and the tendency for this to occur.
What is "blood pooling" in muscles that were heavily worked.
500
This is characterised by pain, redness, loss of function, damage to cells/surrounding tissue, increased blood flow to area, oedema, formation of blood vessels to promote healing
What is "the inflammatory stage" or stage 1 of the Inflammatory response.
500
Training programs are low impact, specific to a persons physical limitations, with considerations to a persons physical limitations
What are training program considerations for "aged athletes"?
500
At what percent water loss in the body produces "considerable discomfort and and a decline in aerobic effort"
What is 5% loss 1% = thirst 10% = breakdown in coordination, movements being difficult 20% = upper limit of dehydration before death
500
The days when heat and cold can be used post injury.
What is up to 4 days after the injury for cold and heat can be used 2 to 3 days after the injury.
500
Name the greatest rate of hospitalisation from a sport for men and then for women
What is AFL for men and Equestrian pursuits for women
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