lecture notes on injury risk factors, the key considerations of reducing injuries in athlete, with reference to certain methods to reduce chance of injury.
Advanced biomechanical analysis- lecture 20- injury risk factors
Aims:
Consider the role of biomechanics in injury prevention
Identify how factors for injury can be classified
Determine mechanisms to assist in reducing risk of injury
Factors affecting injury:
It is important to understand how biological materials fail, and how other materials
affect injury:
Load characteristics
Genetic factors
Fitness or training state
Technique
Equipment and surfaces
Structural properties of tissues
Cause of injury
How injuries occur is important to:
Obtain information on why an athlete may be at risk in a certain situation (risk
factors)
How injury happen- the mechanisms of injury
Load characteristics
Bahr & Krosshaug (2005) identify two statements:
The properties of human tissue, load characteristics and strength determine
our response to physical loads
Injury is dependent on the nature, type of load, the rate & frequency of load
repetition, the magnitude of the load, load tolerance & intrinsic factors
The important part to focus on is how the event resulted in a load excessive of
normal tolerations, or tolerance levels reduced to a level that mechanical load can’t
be tolerated. Factors affecting load & load tolerance include:
Behaviour- athlete may take more risks due to using protective equipment
Training/skills- players who develop skills may place more load on the muscle
group being used- eg tennis player having a fast serve increases load on the
shoulder
Equipment- certain equipment is used for protective purposes such as skiers
wearing helmets
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