Sports Injury

Question 1

What is a strain?

Answer 1

A stretching or tearing of a muscle or tissue connecting muscle to bone. tendon

Question 2

What is a sprain?

Answer 2

A stretching or tearing of ligaments, the fibrous tissue that connects bones and joints.

Question 3

What is a contusion?

Answer 3

A region of injured tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured; a bruise

Question 4

What is a fracture?

Answer 4

A complete or partial break in a bone

Question 5

Five different types of fractures

Answer 5

Stable, open, transverse, oblique, comminuted.

Question 6

What is a ligament?

Answer 6

A short band of tough flexible fibrous connective tissue that connects the two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint. Bone to bone.

Question 7

What is a tendon?

Answer 7

A flexible but inelastic cord of strong fibrous collagen tissue attaching a muscle to a bone. Muscle to bone

Question 8

What is epiphysis?

Answer 8

The end of a long bone, initially growing separately from the shaft. Growth plate.

Question 9

How is a contusion

Answer 9

The injury causes tiny blood vessel’s called capillaries to burst, and the blood gets tracked below the skin surface.

Question 10

What is a luxation?

Answer 10

An injury or a joint is forced out of a normal position. Dislocation.

Question 11

What is a subluxation

Answer 11

A partial dislocation

Question 12

What criteria is used to determine an injury?

Answer 12

An instance of being injured

Question 13

What is a chronic injury? Give an example.

Answer 13

An injury that lasts a long time. Example arthritis.

Question 14

What is an injury? Give an example.

Answer 14

An injury that happens quickly. Example bone fracture

Question 15

What is a catastrophic injury?

Answer 15

An injury that can be deadly. Example injury to spinal cord

Question 16

What is critical force

Answer 16

Magnitude of a single force that affects the structure.

Question 17

What is a hematoma?

Answer 17

A solid swelling of clotted blood within the tissues

Question 18

Examples of collision sports.

Answer 18

Football, ice hockey, lacrosse.

Question 19

Give three examples of contacts sports.

Answer 19

Basketball, field hockey, girls lacrosse, soccer, wrestling

Question 20

Give three examples of the limited contact sports

Answer 20

Baseball, sealed events, softball, volleyball.

Question 21

Give three examples of non-contact sports

Answer 21

badminton, bowling, field events, golf, track, cross country, tennis.

Question 22

What is a risk factor?

Answer 22

Any attributes, characteristic, or exposure to an individual that increases the likelihood of developing a disease or injury.

Question 23

What is an intristic risk factor? Given example.

Answer 23

Internal to the body. Example dislocation of shoulder

Question 24

What is an extrinsic risk factor? Give an example.

Answer 24

External to the body. Example field conditions or other players

Question 25

What does epidemiology mean?

Answer 25

The branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.

Question 26

What are the severity of sprains?

Answer 26

Grade one mild stretching of the ligament without joint instability. Grade 2 partial tear or rapture of the ligament with instability of the joint. Grade 3 severe sprain, complete rupture of the ligament with instability of the joint

Question 27

What are the severity is of a strain?

Answer 27

Grade one mild strain. grade two moderate strain. grade 3 tears muscle all the way through, severe strain

Question 28

What are myosotis ossificans?

Answer 28

Can enter as a complication of not treating a contusion correctly and he thought a small growth of bure within the muscle

Question 29

What is in avulsion fracture?

Answer 29

An injury to the bone in a location where a tendon or ligament attaches to the bone. the tendon or ligament pulls off a piece of the bone.

Question 30

What is a comminuted fracture?

Answer 30

A break or splinter of the bone into more than two fragments

Question 31

What is it called when a dislocation is put back in place? Who should do this?

Answer 31

Reduction. Authorized person, Dr., trainer.

Question 32

Is an ACL tear and a cute, chronic, or catastrophic injury?

Answer 32

Acute

Question 33

Is biceps tendinitis and they're cute, chronic, or catastrophic injury?

Answer 33

Chronic

Question 34

Is a cervical vertabral fracture acute, chronic, or catastrophic injury?

Answer 34

Catastrophic