Sports Medicine Marathon 2008 (1 Viewer)

[mikez88]

New question: How can the preventative measures be used to ensure an athlete does not experience any injuries?

these measures involve:
- safe sportin movement: development level of the ahtlete neds to be taken into consideration. movement attempted by athlete shoudl match their skill level

- skill and technique:Athletes with higher skil levels will have less injuries as they have developed skill related components of health (coordination etc) Proper techniques also minismsises long and short term injuries

- flexibility: an athlete needs to have flexibility beyond the range of motion which is to be used in their sport. minisieins risk of soft tissue injury

- endurance: most injuries occur when athelte is fatigued, therefore by improving endurance, athlete will minise risk of injury during game.

- strength: strength allows the athelte to withstand intenal forces within their body when applied towads joints and muscles. Strentggth should be sports specific

- sport specific requirements: Certain sports require specialistation in some componnetns so that athlete can excel in that sport. By ensuring ahtlete can competently do these activites, risk of injury is greatly minismised

- individual participant needs: players vary in skil, height weight etc. therefore when performing, athlets should play to theior abilities and not over excert themselves

- warm up, stretchign adn cool down: pretty simple. Warm muscles ---> greater elasticity and mush less chance of a tear. Stretchign promotes flexibility and coolign down reduceds build up of lactic aci and comforts muscles

its not part fo that dot point but i think taping and use fo heat and cold would be good to include in this answer.

PS sorry for all the typo's

how should a coach determine if anathlete requires immediate medical treatment?

With all injuries, TOTAPS is needed to assess the injury. Once the coach has Talked to the athlete asking where it hurts, did they hear any noises when they injured themselves and what the pain on a scale of 1--> 10 is, they then oberserve the injured area.
When observing the area, the coach must look for swelling, discolouration and deformity and compare it to the uninjured side.
The coach must then touch around the area but must never directly apply pressure to the injured site. The coach must start from far away from the limb and move closer towards it.
Next step is to actively move the injured site. This is done by the athlete to see how much it hurts and to see the range of movement. The atlete then moves the uninjured side and compare any major differences.
Passive movement is next, this is done by the coach. The coach must move the athletes injured body part to look for lack of movement and stiffness, followed by comparing the movement to the other side.
The last step (if still possible) is to put the athlete through a specific activity which could then allow them to either return to the game or to seek further medical attention.(usually would be able to figure out the problem by the end of P).

Please correct me if i am wrong.

 

[menofstudy]

That is correct Mikez, you used TOTAPS and went through the steps correctly. I remember in my assessment (I was in the coaches position) touched the injured site through active and passive movement which isn't correct. But you were a wise one, kudos.

All that's left is for you to ask another question

 

[j-3-s-5]

Distinguish when it is suitable to use heat and cold in injury managemtn procedures?

Ice should be applied immediately to soft tissue injuries to reduce pain, swelling and bleeding by reducing inflammation. Methods of ice application include crushed ice in a wet towel, frozen gel packs, and immersion in ice bucket, and should be applied 10 mins every hour, up to 4 days. Ice should not be applied to hard tissue injuries as this increases pain.

Heat should not be applied with the first 3 days after injury, or until internal bleeding has stopped. Thermotherapy, the application of heat to an injury, is used to increase elasticity of new fibres during stretching process, reduce pain, stiffness and inflammation and increase blood flow. methods of ehat application include heat packs, whirlpool baths, contrast baths and ultrasound therapy.

How can the preventative measures be used to ensure an athlete does not experience any injuries?

Physical Preparation:
- Flexibility: Maintain muscle elasticity, decrease risk of soft tissue injury and muscle soreness.
- Endurance: delays onset of fatigue
- Strength: increases muscle and tendon strength
- Sport Specific Requirements: demands of sport (energy system, strength, speed, skill, and endurance requirements)
- Warm up: increases blood flow, temp and muscle flexibility
- Cool down: mremoves lactic acid and prevents blood pooling
- Individual participant's needs: address injuries, disabilities, illnesses, skill level, age, and psychological needs.
- Skill Technique: correct and ongoing development to prevent overuse injuries.
- Safe Sporting Movement: includes safety equipment, and protective clothing, and modifying movements in unsafe conditions.

Sports Policy and Sports environment:
- Grounds and Facilities: even surfaces, rubbish and obstacles remvoed, fixtures padded, adequate lighting, safety equipment.
- Administration: Supervision and referees provided, competition challenging and rewarding, reaosnable pressure, medical assistance available.
- Modified rules for children: shorter games, smaller fields, etc. to avoid overheating or fatigue.
- Even competition: age, skill level, maturity, gender etc.
- Rules of activites and sports: protect participants, assist flow of play, reinforced on field.

Protective equipment:
- Apparell and protective guard: head, eye, feet, teath and body protection.
- Safe court and field design
- Safe playing equipment: checked and properly constructed, suited to size and ability or athletes.

Thermoregulation:
- Temp and humidity: increased risk of heat exhaustion, dehydraton and hyperthermia- water loss throuhg sweating.
- Cold and Wind: wind effects conduction and convection, overdressing promotoes sweating and heat loss.
- Cold water: heat loss more rapid in water due to combined effect of radiation and convection.

Taping:
- Preventative: supports and strengthens a joint during movement.
- Isolation: allows athlete to participate in conditioning exercises during rehab.
- Bandaging: restricts bleeding after injury.

Just kinda threw it all in there.

Outline the goals of an exercise program for an aged athlete to improve their quality of life. (3 marks)

 

[Tincho]

looks prety good to me.

AS for me, im gonna sleep Thanks for the last minute study, best of luck guys

 

[menofstudy]

Outline the goals of an exercise program for an aged athlete to improve their quality of life. (3 marks)

The physical benefits of an exercise program include the reduced risk of many lifestyle disease and an improved fitness. Additionally, there is also social and emotional benefits as well.
A pre-screening process is reccommended before beginning an exercise program to determine what is best suited. The benefits of an aerobic based exercise program has significant health benefits for the heart as the heart experiances an overload and must adapt. It is important the exercise is not too strenuous as it runs the risk of heart attack, therefore a moderate to light intensity is satisfactory.
Weight training activity helps to increase bone density. Activities such as heavy weightlifting and tackle rugby pose a great risk to the elderly's brittle bones. Lighter intensity activities once again are preferred such as gold or tennis.
Flexibility and joint mobility decrease with age. Therefore, activities that provide the body to move in a wide range of motion can be of great benefit to flexibility of muscles, ligaments and tendons such as swimming or yoga.
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Outline the role of sports administrators in promoting safe participation.

 

[inter108]

LOL I'm fucked

 

[Katieeee]

I think I'm just going to head to bed now, hopefully all this is tucked away in my long term memory. I posted some of my sports med acronyms in the acronym thread if anyone is interested. Good luck everyone!!

 

[inter108]

Pdh/pe is fucked up LOL

 

[menofstudy]

Pdh/pe is fucked up LOL

Get outta here, yooouuu.

Insulting PD is like insulting the entire Australian Health system.

You are also insulting the way our body naturally reacts to training.

Unless you mean this in an amazed way as in you are just utterly shocked at how fucked (good) this course is.