Transcript Sports injuries

Sports injuries
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Sports injuries and treatment
• More than ten million sports injuries occur
each year
• Most sports injuries are due to either traumatic
injury (an external blow) or overuse of muscles
or joints
• Unless you have been trained in first aid, you should
never try to treat a casualty
• Many sports injuries can be prevented by:
– Proper conditioning and training
– Wearing appropriate protective gear
– Using the correct equipment
Types of sports injury
• Types of sports
injury include:
– Wounds
– Fractures
– Joint/muscle injuries
– Unconsciousness
– Shock
– Heat exhaustion
and heat-stroke
• You must learn how
each injury occurs and how
it should be treated
Wounds
• A wound is any break in the skin or body surface
• Cuts can be caused by sharp edges such as boot
studs, jewellery or stones
• When the skin is cut, the blood vessels at the wound
edges are cut straight across, so blood loss is
very likely
• Grazes are wounds in which the top layers of skin
are scraped off, leaving a raw, tender area
• Grazes are commonly caused by a sliding fall (eg a
trip on a running track), a friction burn (eg hands
sliding along a rope) or a grass burn (eg a sliding
tackle on dry grass)
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