What Happened To Me? (Recognizing Different Sports Injuries)
These types of injuries occur from trauma (ex: humerus fracture)
What is an acute injury?
This law provides limited protection against legal liability to any individual who voluntarily chooses to provide care.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
Staphylococcus (ex. MRSA) and streptococcus (ex. folliculitis) are examples of _____.
What is a bacterial infection?
The anatomical structure that represents the "heel bone"
What is the calcaneus?
This item is commonly used to provide compression of acute injuries; secure a dressing, padding, or ice pack; and provide additional soft tissue support.
What is an elastic wrap/bandage?
Pain, warmth, swelling, loss of function, and redness are signs of _____.
What is inflammation?
This plan involves accessing the emergency medical services system and should include contact information, communication plans, directions, and equipment locations.
What is the emergency action plan?
This is a sudden and brief attack of altered consciousness, motor activity, sensory phenomena, or inappropriate behavior.
What is a seizure?
This anatomical structure is commonly referred to as the "knee cap".
What is the patella?
This type of thermal modality is used for increasing blood flow and decreasing pain.
What is a moist heat pack?
These types of injuries can occur from tension, compression, bending, torsion, and shear forces on the bone.
What are fractures?
This is the failure to use ordinary or reasonable care.
What is negligence?
This action occurs when the brain tells the diaphragm and abdomen to forcefully contract in an effort to expel stomach contents in response to the stomach being irritated.
What is vomiting?
The scapula is _____ to the sacrum.
What is superior?
This acronym describes the injury assessment process.
HOPS - history, observation, palpation, special tests
In this type of injury, a bone comes partially out of its normal articulation but then goes right back into place.
What is a subluxation?
This comprehensive plan involves addressing security issues, fire safety, electrical and equipment safety, and emergency action plans.
What is the risk management plan?
This is a sudden vascular reaction of the skin resulting in wheels or papules and itching.
What is urticaria?
This muscle group is responsible for knee flexion and hip extension.
What are the hamstrings?
Early recognition and intervention is key for this condition where there is an imbalance between a physical load being placed on an athlete and their coping capacity.
What is overtraining?
These injuries occur when an external force causes the joint to move beyond its normal limits or planes of movement.
What is a ligament sprain?
This organization develops performance standards for athletic equipment.
What is the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE)?
This condition manifests as symptoms along the spectrum of lower energy availability, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis.
What is the female athlete triad?
This condition occurs when the pleural cavity on one side fills with air and displaces the lung and the heart toward the opposite side, compressing the opposite lung.
What is a tension pneumothorax?
The ability to maintain postural stability.
What is balance?