How are sports injuries classified and managed?
What is the difference between a hard and soft tissue injury?
Soft tissue = injury to muscles, tendons, ligaments; Hard tissue = injury to bone, teeth.
What are the 4 demands of children and young athletes?
Medical conditions
Overuse injuries
Thermoregulation
Appropriateness of resistance training.
Before an athlete participates in an advanced training program or sporting activity, what key actions should be taken to prevent potential injuries?
Pre-screening
Skill & Technique
Physical Fitness
Warm-up, stretching, and cool-down
What are the two indicators of readiness for return to play.
Pain free
Degree of mobility
Beijing, China
Define acute injury and give an example
Acute = sudden onset injury occuring due to an incident or trauma.
Why are children at greater risk of heat stress on hot and humid days?
They acclimatise to heat slower than adults
The 5 components that make up the section of "Sports policy and the sports environment" are:
rules of sports and activities
modified rules for children
matching of opponents
use of protective equipment
safe grounds, equipment and facilities
Following an immobilisation injury, which "injury management procedures" should be part of the athletes rehab before return to play.
Progressive mobilisation,
Graduated exercise,
Training,
Use of heat and cold
What is the name of the test used in rugby union/league to detect concussion.
HIA
Head Injury Assessment
Identify the steps of TOTAPS and show it in use
Talk, Observe, Touch, Active movement, Passive movement, Skills test.
Identify three issues specific to female athletes and explain their impacts.
Iron deficiency (fatigue), eating disorders (performance risk), pregnancy (exercise modifications), Bone density (Higher risk of injury during contact sports)
Which temperature regulation method is less effective in humid environments and why?
It is harder to convert the sweat into a vapour as the air already has lots of vapour in it.
What is one ethical issue about using pain killer injections.
The psychological readiness to return to sport scale is from 0 to what and what does the athlete need to score to suggest they are ready to return to sport?
0 - 100
50 or over
What are the 3 ways to classify a blow to the gastrocnemius by a hockey stick.
Soft tissue, direct, acute.
What should a diabetic child participating in sport consume more of as part of their diet?
Complex Carbohydrates
explain the live low - train high method, and list a physical benefit.
Here the athlete lives at high altitude and trains at low altitude
Living at high altitude stimulates the body's production of red blood cells.
This allows the athlete to carry more oxygen whilst training at sea level, maintaining a higher level of performance for longer.
Regaining the level of mental and physical fitness reached by the athlete before the injury occurred is called what?
Total Body Fitness
Which sports result in the greatest rate of hospitalisation for:
Men:
Women:
Men: Cycling
Women: Equestrian activities
Which stage of the inflammatory response includes scar tissue building and leukocytes cleaning up debris from the injury site. This stage will extend from 3 days to 6 weeks.
Phase 2 - repair inflammation
What considerations should be made when designing training programs for aged athletes?
Training programs should be low-impact, tailored to the individual, and take into account the person’s physical limitations.
What is the difference between hyponatraemia and dehydration. And within what time frame should fluid be replaced after exercise
Hyponatremia: abnormally low levels of sodium within your blood stream
Dehydration: Body loses more fluid than it takes in
Within 2 hours
What are the rehabilitation procedures for a sprain ankle include:
The rehabilitation procedures for a sprained ankle include:
Immediate treatment,
Stretching to increase Range of movement (ROM), conditioning,
Total body fitness, training,
The use of heat and cold.
What is the term when there is a decrease in blood vessel size, causing less blood to be supplied by those blood vessels as a result of hypothermia
Vasoconstriction