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Sports Injuries – using the correct equipment

Sports Injuries – using the correct equipment. Taping – provides stability to the joint prevents ligament injuries Bracing – to provide support, without limiting mobility - However, limit movement where ligament has been over stretched - Used during rehabilitation and recovery

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Sports Injuries – using the correct equipment

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  1. Sports Injuries – using the correct equipment Taping – provides stability to the joint prevents ligament injuries Bracing – to provide support, without limiting mobility - However, limit movement where ligament has been over stretched - Used during rehabilitation and recovery Protective equipment - aid towards preventing impact/penetrative injuries - Fitted correctly, meet NGB standards Clothing: Cool/Warm/Sweating Helps to prevent environmentally related dangers – hypotermia/heat exhaustion/heat stroke

  2. Marathon De Sables

  3. Importance of Warm up/Warm Down • Post exercise warm downs are of benefit on performance/injury prevention and recovery • W/D should be designed to decrease injurious effects of the performance/training session • To prepare performer for next session • HOW? Prevents; • blood from pooling in the limbs • Lactic acid building up in the muscles • Helps muscles and tendons to relax/loosen • Stiffness/tightness of muscles/joints

  4. Delayed Onset of Muscle Soreness • Condition caused by damage to the muscle fibre and connective tissue • Inflammation and increased local muscle temperature • Caused by intense muscular activity and eccentric muscle contraction • Possible research may suggest Lactic Acid may also be a cause • Avoiding DOMS/recovering: • Carry out an active/dynamic warm up • When beginning an exercise programme, avoid strenuous eccentric muscle action (plyometrics) • Gradually increase intensity/duration • Carry out extra eccentric contraction exercises • Active warm down/Theraputic warm down

  5. Exam Question

  6. Prevention and Rehabilitation • Sports science and technological research are essential to the provision of rehabilitative processes. • Cyrogenic chambers • Computerised axial tomograhpy (CAT/CT) • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) • Electrotherapy • Ultrasound • Acupuncture • Hyperbaric chambers • Oxygen tents • Ice baths

  7. Hyperbaric Chamber Therapy • Hyperbaric Chambers • Inhalation of Oxygen under high pressure – in pressure chambers • Boosts white blood cell activity in damaged parts of the body: • Controls infection • Constricts blood vessels – diminishing blood flow to injured region • Reduces pressure and swelling Not proven to be effective in all sports, although football clubs and athletes have used the procedure.

  8. Oxygen Tents • Canopy placed over the head and shoulders, or over the entire body • Provides an oxygen rich environment • Endurance athletes use oxygen tents to try and improve VO2 max • Or to aid recovery from injury more quickly • Hypoxic Tents (however)– stimulates high altitude by maintaining a lower oxygen concentration • Used to stimulate the body’s natural adaptations to altitude – facilitating the production of more oxygen-carrying red blood cells and haemoglobin

  9. Ice Baths • Ice – (RICE) reduces internal bleeding (due to vasoconstriction) and flow of fluids from damaged cells • Controls inflammation and swelling • Cryotherapy – cooling therapy to treat chronic/acute injuries • Ice baths used as post-match recovery in contact sports – as ice is used to treat strains and sprains • A Cryogenic chamber is cooled with liquid nitrogen, to a temp of -110 C. • Treatment for muscle and joint pain – where athlete is placed in a chamber for only a few minutes • Pain relief can last up to 6-8 hours after treatment

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