How can traumatic brain injuries due to sports be avoided in young adolescents and teenagers? Sports of any make or type are part of today’s society. Sporting events are televised worldwide for its entertaining pleasures. Remember watching football before the year 2000 and seeing all the great hits and blocks that we all came to love and enjoy watching? Hearing the words from the commentators‚ “he got the wind knocked out of him‚” when the players were slammed to the ground as part of the game
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Sports Injuries: An Annotated Bibliography Sports have been around since the olympics in 790 B.C.‚ yet only recently has the affects of these sports on our body been addressed. Dr. Bennet Omalu brought attention to the NFLs injuries like no other in 2002‚ when he discovered that the former football star Mike Webster‚ the Pittsburgh Steelers championship center‚ had a degenerative brain disease due to constant head trauma(1). Since the discovery other sports‚ such as rodeo for example‚ have shown
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Boxing is Dangerous Boxing is a sport in which two opponents who each wear padded gloves punch each other for a set period of time. Boxing is done at all levels‚ from amateur to professional. According to many studies and professionals on the subject boxing is indeed a dangerous sport. The short term and long term health of the boxer is put at risk. For over 50 years there has been at an average of 10 boxers die in the ring each year. Boxers put their health and even their lives at stake every time
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highly competitive sport with participation in over 200 countries throughout the world. It is a non-contact racquet sport which requires aspects such as strength‚ power‚ speed‚ coordination and agility. Like any sport‚ tennis places specific demands on the body which can predispose any player to injury. These demands placed on the body result in injuries specific to the game. It is said by Pluim et al (2006) that although many injuries that occur in tennis are common in other sports‚ tennis has its
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How Is Injury Rehabilitation Managed? Rehabilitation Procedures • Rehabilitation aims to restore the injured site so that the athlete can return to practice and competition without pain‚ and with the same range of movement they had before the injury. • Successful rehabilitation procedures reduce the chance of injury Progressive Mobilisation • It is important to progressively introduce movement to the injured area once the RICER technique has been complete • e.g. active and passive movement
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A local sports centre is wanting to provide its members with information on how to prevent sporting injuries. They have asked you to review the scientific literature and provide a summary document that includes a series of recommendations on how to prevent injury‚ which they can communicate to their members Sporting injuries are a significant problem when considering dropout rate in physical activity (Indriðadóttir et al.‚ 2015) therefore a wide range of research has been undertaken to determine
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Intro to Athletic Training Ankle injuries are very common among athletes in every sport. Many people believe that different ways help you heal from an ankle injury. This article‚ A Systematic Review on the Treatment of Acute Ankle Sprain: Braces versus Other Functional Treatment Types‚ explains its results in testing these methods. Their methods were to take a large number of people with an acute ankle sprain and see if there was a difference between a brace and other functional methods. This
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2000’s‚ cheerleading was considered one of the most dangerous school activities. The main source of injuries come from stunting...injuries can be as serious as whiplash‚ broken necks‚ broken vertebra‚ and death” (Wikipedia contributors). “There were two fatal injuries‚ 13 that led to paralysis and 29 very serious head or spinal injuries without paralysis” (Hughes) . II: prevention: “Most injuries occur due to lack of training” (Hughes). Only 3% of the 2.9 million female high school athletics in
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How A Sports Podiatrist Can Help Your Overuse Injury If you regularly participate in sports or if you run every day‚ your feet are at risk of an overuse injury. These injuries happen if you do a lot of jumping‚ kicking balls‚ or running. Your risk of injury is even higher if your feet tend to roll to the inside or outside. If you lead an active lifestyle and you have problems with foot or ankle pain‚ you should consider seeing a sports podiatrist. Here’s why. A Sports Podiatrist Helps You Stay
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Pay the PRICE: P rotect the injured knee from further injury R est the affected knee. Consider crutches to keep the weight off the knee. However‚ many doctors say not to keep the knee unmoving for too long. It’s best to start some exercises to keep the joint moving. I ce should be applied as soon as possible after the injury - for 10-30 minutes. Do not put ice directly on skin‚ as it may cause ice-burn - use a cloth. The cold reduces blood flow to the damaged ligament. This may limit pain and
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