INJURIES
- Created by: zoe davies
- Created on: 09-04-13 13:28
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- Injuries
- Bones
- Fracture is a break on a bone, accompanied by swelling.
- Simple fracture
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- Break only part away across the bone
- Closed fractures
- The skin over the break is not damaged
- Compound fractures
- The skin is torn and bone pokes out, serious as risk of infection
- Stress
- Overuse injuries and is a small crack in the bone. Continuous stress over a long period of time
- can be caused if wear poor quality shoes or playing on hard surfaces
- Joints
- Where the two or more bones meet
- Tennis and golfers elbow
- Continuous stress on parts of the body
- Tennis outside of elbow, Golfers inside of elbow
- Dislocations
- Where a bone at a join is forced out of its normal position from sudden stress
- Sprains
- Damaged ligament which has been stretched or torn, usually because of violent twisting.
- Strains
- a tear in a muscle caused by over stretching
- Treatment
- RICE
- Rest
- Stop immediately and rest the injury
- Ice
- Apply ice as makes the blood vessels contract to reduce internal bleeding or swelling
- Compression
- Bandaging the injury will help reduce swelling.
- Elevation
- Above the heart as it reduces swelling
- Rest
- RICE
- How to prevent injuries
- Calcium rich diet.
- Smoking and alcohol have toxic effect on bones
- Bones
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