HSC+Option+1+Sports+Medicine

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 * How are sports injuries classified & managed?**

Ways to classify sports injuries Sprains Skin abrasion Laceration Blisters Calluses || R I C E R || Dislocations ||  || Outline the Inflammatory Response
 * Sports injuries || Definitions || Examples || Management ||
 * Direct ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Indirect ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Overuse ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Soft Tissue ||  || Tears
 * Hard Tissue ||  || Fractures

Assessment of Injuries

T O T A P S


 * How does sports medicine address the demands of specific athletes?**

Children & young athletes

Adult & Aged Athletes
 * Consideration || Definition || Examples || Implications for children & young athletes ||
 * medical conditions ||  ||   ||   ||
 * overuse injuries ||  ||   ||   ||
 * thermoregulation ||  ||   ||   ||
 * matching opponents ||  ||   ||   ||
 * appropriateness of resistance training ||  ||   ||   ||

Female Athletes
 * Consideration || Defintion || Examples || Implications for adult & aged athletes ||
 * heart conditions ||  ||   ||   ||
 * fractures/bone density ||  ||   ||   ||
 * flexibility/joint mobility ||  ||   ||   ||


 * Considerations || Definition || Examples || Implications for female athletes ||
 * eating disorders ||  ||   ||   ||
 * iron deficiency ||  ||   ||   ||
 * bone density ||  ||   ||   ||
 * pregnancy ||  ||   ||   ||
 * menstruation ||  ||   ||   ||

Physical Preparation
 * What role do preventative actions play in enhancing the wellbeing of the athlete?**
 * Skill & technique
 * Safe sporting movement
 * Flexibility
 * Endurance
 * Strength
 * Sport Specific Requirements
 * Individual Participants Needs
 * Warm Up, Stretching & Warm Down

Sports Policy & the Sports Environment Protective Equipment
 * Responsibilities of the club, school, sports administrator
 * Rules of sports and activities
 * Modified rules for children
 * Even competition
 * Grounds and facilities
 * Apparel and protective guards for head and neck, eyes, body, teeth and feet
 * Safe court and field design
 * Safe playing equipment

Thermoregulation Taping & bandaging
 * Temperature regulation (convection, radiation, conduction, evaporation)
 * Environmental conditions (temperature and humidity, cold and wind, cold water
 * || Considerations & procedure || Points for || Points against ||
 * Preventative bandaging ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Taping for isolation of injury ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Bandaging for immediate treatment of injury ||  ||   ||   ||

Injury management procedures
 * How is recovery from injury managed?**


 * Progressive mobilisation
 * Stretching
 * Conditioning
 * Total body fitness
 * Training
 * Taping
 * Specific programs

Return to Play
 * || Procedure for using || Current theories on management of injuries || Plus || Minus ||
 * Heat ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Cold ||  ||   ||   ||   ||


 * indicators of readiness to return to play (pain free, degree of mobility)
 * monitoing progress (pre-test & post-test)
 * taping
 * specific warm-up procedures
 * progressive involvement


 * What ethical questions are raised by the increased use of sports medicine?**

Playing with injury

Use of drugs
 * Pressure to participate
 * The role of the coach and sports medicine practitioner
 * Category || Drug || Intended effects & side effects (contraindications) || Points for || Points against ||
 * For strength || Human growth hormone (Hgh) ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Anabolic Steroids ||  ||   ||   ||
 * For aerobic performance || EPO ||  ||   ||   ||
 * To mask other drugs || Diurectics ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Alcohol ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Drug Testing: argue issue related to:
 * at what level of competition should drug testing be introduced?
 * what types of drugs should be tested for?
 * what are the pros and cons of drug testing?
 * what should be the consequences of drug use?


 * Resources**