Sports Medicine Assessment Task Hooyda Mohamed Part 1 Children & Young Athletes Female Athletes- Swimming a) For each group‚ research‚ present and briefly discuss current Australian data to identify one sport each that has high participation levels for these groups of athletes. Female Athletes- Swimming Sport is within females is increasing gradually as a result women now participating
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related injuries do not just happen to professional teams but occur on youth‚ high school‚ and college teams. Concussions‚ knee sprains‚ stress fractures happen often and are now considered common injuries. Parents do not get overly worried‚ like they should‚ due to the severity of these injuries that happen to their children. In reality‚ the real problems are how parents encourage their children to be extremely competitive on the field and play aggressively‚ the amount of traumatic injuries that occur
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finally‚ the recovery stage‚ and being able to play again. Emotional responses to injuries varies differently throughout athletes. While it is known that some athletes that are injured struggle emotionally‚ not all injured players experience noticeable emotional disturbance. The biggest reality of today’s sports is that many athletes have or will sustain career ending injuries. But another huge reality of injuries is that not only does the human body become damaged‚ but the mind aswell‚ although
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Rest: Rest is recommended for the early recovery phase‚ lasting 1 to 5 days depending on the severity of the injury. Immobilization is not usually necessary‚ and can be potentially harmful. Immobilization in a splint or cast should be carefully supervised by your doctor‚ as this can lead to stiffness of the muscle. Ice: Ice application helps reduce swelling‚ bleeding‚ and pain. Ice application should begin as soon as possible after sustaining a muscle pull. Ice applications can be done frequently
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about the injuries involved? Well you’re not alone. According to an article about sports medicine‚ “During the last decade‚ ED visits for sports- and recreation-related TBIs‚ including concussions‚ among children and adolescents increased by 60%” (OHSAA). This statistic shows that during sports‚ some people can get really intense with it and injure themselves minorly or even seriously. We need to make equipment that will try to prevent these accidents. To enjoy sports without causing injury you need
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child is being taken care of properly. There are unintentional injuries that can occur to the child if the child’s caregiver is not fully paying attention to them. Making sure that the caregiver knows what do in case something unintentional does happen to the child is very important. First‚ what does unintentional injury mean? Unintentional injury means an unexpected or unplanned event that may result in physical harm or injury. When it comes to children and safety‚ teachers‚ parents and daycare
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key elements of the development approach taken by HSE in the drafting of the Regulations were: • To take an opportunity to try to reduce the numbers of deaths and major injuries caused by falls from height in the workplace. (Falls from height are the biggest single cause of fatal injuries‚ and the second biggest cause of major injuries‚ caused by accidents at work). To bring together all the current legal requirements related to safe work at height‚ into a cohesive‚ single set of goal-setting Regulations
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four wheels‚ two in front and two in back. Rollerblading and inline skating are the same with the wheels in one row lined up behind each other. CPSC (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) statistics (Aldred‚ p.477) regarding people’s death and injury from roller or inline skating indicates more preventive and protective gears are needed in the skating activities. In my opinion‚ preventive measures should be a priority in order to reduce the risk of being injured in the roller skating. First
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Sprains and Strains can be classified at different at a different degree‚ third being the worse injury just depending on the quantity of fibers involved with the injury. A haematoma is blood outside the blood vessels‚ usually caused by disturbance like in a muscle. It is different from a bruise as that is the range of blood under the skin in a thin layer. The first type is the Intramuscular injury‚ this only effects the tissue and the bleeding is confined within the sheath around the muscle and
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tear in the muscles of the groin. This commonly occurs in high level athletes that are involved in twisting or turning activities at full speed‚ such as soccer‚ hockey‚ lacrosse‚ baseball‚ track‚ and basketball and football players. Typically this injury occurs from hyper-extension of the abdomen with hyper-abduction of the thigh. Patients with groin pain that occurs following an athletic activity are evaluated with rest‚ analgesics and anti-inflammatory medications. If symptoms stay the same or
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