Sports Medicine
Sports Medicine
The injury scenario I have chosen to do is: * A female athlete with a fracture to the femur.
1. Classification and management of the injury.
There are five ways to classify sports injuries. These include direct and indirect injuries, soft and hard tissue injuries and overuse injuries. A direct injury is caused by an external blow or force. In the case of a female athlete fracturing her femur, a direct injury could be the cause, but isn’t the most likely one. For example, if the female athlete was playing hockey, she may have been struck by an opponent or own team mate with the hockey stick in the femur causing her to fracture it due to the external blow or excessive force. An indirect injury can be caused in two ways; the actual injury can occur some distance from the impact site or by internal forces resulting from the actions of a performer. The most common cause would be by internal forces resulting from the actions of a performer, for example, poor technique. The female athlete could fracture her femur by having poor technique while running a 110m hurdle race. She could have poor technique running and then jumping and then landing causing her to fracture her femur.
Soft tissue injuries involve damage to the skin, muscles, tendon, ligaments, cartilage, blood vessels, organs and nerves, while hard tissue injuries involve damage to the bone or teeth and overuse injuries occur when excessive and repetitive force is placed on the bones and other connective tissues of the body. So a female athlete with a fracture to the femur is defiantly not a soft tissue injury, could be an overuse injury but you can easily classify that it is a hard tissue injury.
Hard tissue injuries are injuries involving damage to the bones of the skeleton. In this case fracture to the femur. The 2 main types of fractures are compound and simple. If the female athlete were to have a compound fracture to the femur, the bone would have broken and protruded
The injury scenario I have chosen to do is: * A female athlete with a fracture to the femur.
1. Classification and management of the injury.
There are five ways to classify sports injuries. These include direct and indirect injuries, soft and hard tissue injuries and overuse injuries. A direct injury is caused by an external blow or force. In the case of a female athlete fracturing her femur, a direct injury could be the cause, but isn’t the most likely one. For example, if the female athlete was playing hockey, she may have been struck by an opponent or own team mate with the hockey stick in the femur causing her to fracture it due to the external blow or excessive force. An indirect injury can be caused in two ways; the actual injury can occur some distance from the impact site or by internal forces resulting from the actions of a performer. The most common cause would be by internal forces resulting from the actions of a performer, for example, poor technique. The female athlete could fracture her femur by having poor technique while running a 110m hurdle race. She could have poor technique running and then jumping and then landing causing her to fracture her femur.
Soft tissue injuries involve damage to the skin, muscles, tendon, ligaments, cartilage, blood vessels, organs and nerves, while hard tissue injuries involve damage to the bone or teeth and overuse injuries occur when excessive and repetitive force is placed on the bones and other connective tissues of the body. So a female athlete with a fracture to the femur is defiantly not a soft tissue injury, could be an overuse injury but you can easily classify that it is a hard tissue injury.
Hard tissue injuries are injuries involving damage to the bones of the skeleton. In this case fracture to the femur. The 2 main types of fractures are compound and simple. If the female athlete were to have a compound fracture to the femur, the bone would have broken and protruded