Transcript Injuries - BSH-PE

Lucy
Risk
When you take up a sport, there’s always a worry that
you might hurt yourself.
Some sporting activities are more dangerous than
others. A variety of factors influence how safe you’ll
be. These include:
 Environment
 Weather
 Equipment
We calculate the risk of injury to help us assess the
chances of injuring ourselves.
CALCULATING RISK
RISK IS THE LIKELIHOOD OF HARM.
All sports carry some risk of injury and some
activities are riskier than others.
You need to be able to identify the risks involved
to you and others taking part.
Consider:
 Frequency: how often do injuries occur in the
activity?
 Severity: how serious are the injuries?
 Precautions: how could you help to minimise the
risk of injury?
 Frequency; if falls are common
 Severity ; would accident cause serious injuries
and death
 Precautions; how can you reduce the risk
EXAMPLE: SKIING;
• Skiers should use protective clothing to
minimise their risk of injury.
 helmet, gloves and goggles, knee, ankle, wrist
support etc.
 use the right equipment and always check the
weather forecast and snow conditions.
 Ski on appropriate run, and with someone
else.
Overall risk: Moderate to High risk
CAUSES OF INJURY:
Injuries occur in two ways;
Externally or Internally.
Either as a result of
external force from outside your body
or
internal force from inside your body.
An externally caused injury might
involve someone bumping into
you, impacting on your body to
cause a fracture or dislocation.
Most common in contact sports.
External Forces
Impact injuries are common in invasion sports
There are two types, Impact with;
• Someone , tackle, collision, punch, kick or
• Something, hockey stick/ball, landing hard, running into a
post.
These cause bruises, sprains, fractures, dislocations or
concussion.
INTERNAL INJURIES
Internally, sudden movements can strain and tear
soft tissue, muscle fibres and tendons, or damage
ligaments, something that’s also possible from
overtraining.
Chronic injuries arise when a condition is left
untreated.
OVERUSE AND CHRONIC INJURIES
Overuse injuries;
 As the name implies these are caused by using a part of
the body again and again and include tennis or golf
elbow., both count as repetitive strain injuries or RSI
 Initially these can be eased with RICE
Chronic injuries
• These happen when this type of injury isnot treated or
given time to heal.
These types of injury can lead to arthritis.
COMMON TYPES OF INJURY
Fractures:
- a crack or a break in a bone
or bones
Closed
- when the bone breaks but stays inside the skin.
Open
- when the bone breaks and comes out
the skin.
Dislocation
-
when the bones of a joint are wrenched apart.
-Torn Cartilage
-- which tears, often
in the knee and can 'lock' the joint
through
COMMON TYPES OF INJURY
Concussion
– shaking/bruising to the brain
 Caused by impact to the head, often knocking the
person unconscious
COMMON TYPES OF INJURY
Soft tissue injuries: treated with RICE
Sprains - when ligaments are overstretched or torn around a joint,
eg twisted or sprained ankle.
Strains - when a muscle or tendon is overstretched or torn,
eg pulled muscle.
Bruises - caused when blood vessels burst under the skin following
impact.
Pulled/torn muscles damage to fibres
Skin damage:
 Cuts - caused by impact with a sharp object.
 Grazes and blisters - caused by friction or rubbing.
RICE
 The RICE method helps with many types of joint and
muscle injuries. The method will ease pain and help
speed recovery. The RICE method is very helpful if you
use it right away after an injury.
 R=Rest,
 I=Ice, reduces swelling - which is often the cause of pain
 C=Compression, controls swelling
 E=Elevation, reduces swelling
if injury does not get better seek help
ENVIRONMENTAL INJURIES
 Environmental injuries occur when athletes are working for
a long time in very hot or very cold conditions.
 In hot weather make sure you take in enough fluids to avoid
dehydration
Dehydration - caused by heat & a lack of water/fluids.
Leads to headache, light headedness, pale clammy skin and
muscle cramps.
Hypothermia - caused by excessive cold. The internal or core
body temperature drops, leading to shivering, cold pale
skin, shallow breathing, confusion, aggression
and
and tiredness.
OVER TO YOU
 Divide your paper into quarters
 List your four activities for final assessment
 State how you could avoid an injury – safety rules??
 Find a different injury that might happen in each of
your activities.
 Explain how you would recognise the injury
 Explain how you would treat the injury