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Sports Injuries

Sports Injuries. Lucy. Risk. When you take up a sport, there’s always a worry that you might hurt yourself. Some sporting activities are more dangerous than others. A variety of factors influence how safe you’ll be. These include: Environment Weather Equipment

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Sports Injuries

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  1. Sports Injuries Lucy

  2. Risk When you take up a sport, there’s always a worry that you might hurt yourself. Some sporting activities are more dangerous than others. A variety of factors influence how safe you’ll be. These include: • Environment • Weather • Equipment We calculate the risk of injury to help us assess the chances of injuring ourselves.

  3. RISK IS THE LIKELIHOOD OF HARM. All sports carry some risk of injury and some activities are riskier than others. You need to be able to identify the risks involved to you and others taking part. CALCULATING RISK Consider: • Frequency: how often do injuries occur in the activity? • Severity: how serious are the injuries? • Precautions: how could you help to minimise the risk of injury? • Frequency; if falls are common • Severity ; would accident cause serious injuries and death • Precautions; how can you reduce the risk

  4. EXAMPLE: SKIING; • Skiers should use protective clothing to minimise their risk of injury. • helmet, gloves and goggles, knee, ankle, wrist support etc. • use the right equipment and always check the weather forecast and snow conditions. • Ski on appropriate run, and with someone else. Overall risk: Moderate to High risk

  5. EXAMPLE HORSERIDING

  6. CAUSES OF INJURY: Injuries occur in two ways; Externally or Internally. Either as a result of external force from outside your body or internal force from inside your body.

  7. An externally caused injury might involve someone bumping into you, impacting on your body to cause a fracture or dislocation. Most common in contact sports. External Forces Impact injuries are common in invasion sports There are two types, Impact with; • Someone , tackle, collision, punch, kick or • Something, hockey stick/ball, landing hard, running into a post. These cause bruises, sprains, fractures, dislocations or concussion.

  8. INTERNAL INJURIES Internally, sudden movements can strain and tear soft tissue, muscle fibres and tendons, or damage ligaments, something that’s also possible from overtraining. Chronic injuries arise when a condition is left untreated.

  9. OVERUSE AND CHRONIC INJURIES Overuse injuries; • As the name implies these are caused by using a part of the body again and again and include tennis or golf elbow., both count as repetitive strain injuries or RSI • Initially these can be eased with RICE Chronic injuries • These happen when this type of injury isnot treated or given time to heal. These types of injury can lead to arthritis.

  10. COMMON TYPES OF INJURY Fractures: - a crack or a break in a bone or bones Closed - when the bone breaks but stays inside the skin. Open - when the bone breaks and comes out through the skin. Dislocation • when the bones of a joint are wrenched apart. • Torn Cartilage • - which tears, often in the knee and can 'lock' the joint

  11. COMMON TYPES OF INJURY Concussion – shaking/bruising to the brain • Caused by impact to the head, often knocking the person unconscious

  12. COMMON TYPES OF INJURY Soft tissue injuries: treated with RICE Sprains - when ligaments are overstretched or torn around a joint, eg twisted or sprained ankle. Strains - when a muscle or tendon is overstretched or torn, eg pulled muscle. Bruises - caused when blood vessels burst under the skin following impact. Pulled/torn muscles damage to fibres Skin damage: • Cuts - caused by impact with a sharp object. • Grazes and blisters - caused by friction or rubbing.

  13. RICE • The RICE method helps with many types of joint and muscle injuries. The method will ease pain and help speed recovery. The RICE method is very helpful if you use it right away after an injury. • R=Rest, • I=Ice, reduces swelling - which is often the cause of pain • C=Compression, controls swelling • E=Elevation, reduces swelling if injury does not get better seek help

  14. ENVIRONMENTAL INJURIES • Environmental injuries occur when athletes are working for a long time in very hot or very cold conditions. • In hot weather make sure you take in enough fluids to avoid dehydration Dehydration - caused by heat & a lack of water/fluids. Leads to headache, light headedness, pale clammy skin and muscle cramps. Hypothermia - caused by excessive cold. The internal or core body temperature drops, leading to shivering, cold pale skin, shallow breathing, confusion, aggression and and tiredness.

  15. OVER TO YOU • Divide your paper into quarters • List your four activities for final assessment • State how you could avoid an injury – safety rules?? • Find a different injury that might happen in each of your activities. • Explain how you would recognise the injury • Explain how you would treat the injury

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