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Classifying and Managing Sports Injuries

Understanding and managing sports injuries involves a systematic approach to assessment and treatment. Injuries can be categorized into hard tissue injuries, such as dislocations and fractures, soft tissue injuries, which include tears, sprains, and contusions, and overuse injuries.

Classifying and Managing Sports Injuries

Classifying and Managing Sports Injuries

Assessment of Injury

TOTAPS

*TALK (find out what happened, how it occurred and what they are feeling- symptoms)

* OBSERVE (look for obvious signs of injury- swelling, discolouration, deformity, etc)

* TOUCH (gentally feel around the injury and try to pnpoint the area of pain)

* ACTIVE MOVEMENT (ask the player to perform a range of movements specif to the required sport/activity)

* PASSIVE MOVEMENT (the assessor manipulates the injured site to detect pain and instability)

* SKILLS TEST (the player is required to perform a particular skill that is essential to their gameplay- e.g. an agility test of speed combined with sideways movement for a soccer player).

Indirect Injuries

Indirrect injuries are caused by intrinsic force (those within the body). An example is a torn hamstring in a sprinter as the result of over-stretching (stride length).

Direct Injuries

Direct injuries are caused by an external force applied to the body. An example may be a punch in boxing knocking out an opponent.

Overuse Injuries

Hard tissue injuries

Dislocation
Fractures

Soft tissue injuries

RICER
Infammatory response
Skin abrasions, lacerations and blisters
Tears, sprains and contusions