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Introduction and Anatomic Basis for Athletic Injury Assessment. The Body As a Whole. Assessment of injury begins with systematic and deliberate observation of the athlete as a whole. You always have to deal with the body as a whole when dealing with injury. Somatotype.
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Introduction and Anatomic Basis for Athletic Injury Assessment
Assessment of injury begins with systematic and deliberate observation of the athlete as a whole. • You always have to deal with the body as a whole when dealing with injury.
Somatotype • There are a variety of athletic body types and physiques. • Certain physiques dominate particular sports or positions within the sport. • The classification of the body according to physique is known as somatoyping.
Three categories of somaotypes: • Endomorph: characterized by a roundness and softness of the body. Carry more body fat.
Somatotypes can have cross-over. • Ex: Mesoendomorphs
Body Composition • The assessment of body composition is more valuable than somatotyping. • The assessment of body composition is used to identify what percentage of the body is made up of lean tissue and what percentage is fat.
Body comp can serve a variety of purposes in athletics: • Set minimal weight guidelines for sports with weight classes. • Monitor athletes as they try to lose or gain weight. • Used to determine is an athlete is “overweight” or “overfat”
Many athletes are well above the average weight because of increased muscle mass, not fat. • Height-weight charts. • BMI • Average health body fat %’s: • Male 15-18% • Female 22-29% • Athletes body fat may be much lower than average.
There is no single percentage of fat that can be singles out as optimal. • Each athlete is unique.