Soft tissue injury

Factual causation There must be a causal connection between the wrong and the damage suffered. ‘But for test’ derived from a significant case Barnett v Kensington & Chelsea Hospital . But for Watson’s stroke, would the damage to Sherlock still have happened? The answer is no. If D had driven the car at the reasonable standard of an experienced driver, foresaw the risk of potential danger after noticing his blurred vision and subsequently stopped driving, Sherlock would not have been injured.…

greatest risk of overuse injuries. Particularly, athletes aged between 15 and 19 years of age tend to be at the greatest risk of stress fractures, with 42.6% of all stress fractures occurring at that age (McLeod et al 2011). Additionally, females are more commonly affected by overuse injuries than males, but research is inconsistent if that is due to the nature of the sports females are involved in or a different factor. In Stracciolini’s study, a closer look at overuse injuries in the pediatric…

Describe a procedure used to assess the nature and extent of a sport injury ( ½ pages) (provide characteristics and features) TOTAPS is an acronym that is used when an athlete is injured and needs to be assessed. When the athlete gets injured you need to ask them questions and talk to them, things like how it happened? Where it hurts? Etc., by doing this you can gather valuable information about the injury; this is Talk (T) the first step complete. The next step is to observe (O) the athlete,…

INTRODUCTION Injury prevention is an essential aspect in the services athletic trainers can provide their patients. Strengthening muscles, improving balance and coordination, and increasing flexibility are all measurable outcomes that can be achieved by the athlete. Despite these efforts to prevent injury, assessing and predicting injury in athletic populations is not an easy task, as several variables need to be taken into account in order to obtain an accurate prediction. One such variable is…

practices because of how many injuries are accounted each year. Two many students are getting hurt during a school year because of sports. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control (CDC), estimated that high school athletes account for about 2 million injuries and 500,000 doctor visits with 30,000 hospitalizations each year. Children ages 5 to 14 account for nearly 40% for all sports related injuries treated in hospitals. On average the rate increases with the child's age. The injuries are…

they try to walk or run. Hamstring injuries are rated on a scale from one to three. Grade 1 injuries represent the most minor kinds of hamstring injuries, like cramps and strains, while grade 3 injuries represent much more serious muscle tears. A strong recovery is possible after a grade 3 hamstring injury, but most require months of rehabilitation. Athletes must be especially careful to properly maintain the hamstring, even during the off season, as an injury to the hamstring can have a massive…

provides workers with benefits after they've been injured at work. These benefits vary depending on the circumstances surrounding the injury as well as the level of care needed after the injury as well as when and if the employee can return to work. Every employer is required to have workers' compensation insurance to provide for their employees if there's been an injury that happens during the course of their employment. If they don't have insurance, they must be approved to self-insure. Most…

The NFL season is not off to a positive start for the Arizona Cardinals. They lost their first regular season game on September 10 to the Detroit Tigers. After the game, they found out that they will have to play without running back David Johnson, who will be out for two to three months. Johnson suffered a dislocated wrist, which requires surgery. Johnson’s absence will be a blow to the team, who have come to rely on his skills. Last season, he had over 2,000 combined rushing and receiving…

ground but does it really work? According to the Catastrophic Personal Injury blog, children under the age of 16 suffer nearly 93% of fractures related to trampoline with very few cases leading to permanent neurological damage. So let’s ask ourselves the same question, is the safety net a better option?…

Neurophysiology plays an important role in terms of physical strength and sporting performance. Fatigue among sportspersons is a major limiter of performance. Therefore, the mechanism and the nature of the exercise associated fatigue should be well understood. The paper will touch on the some theories that attempt to explain the nature of fatigue. Brief Background and Findings of Previous Literature Several physiologists have attempted to explain the complex associations between fatigue and…