Presented by …. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Sport
Unit 18: Sports Injures Physiological and psychological Responses to sport Injuries
Learning out Comes: Know about a range of sports injuries and their symptoms!
Introduction: In competitive and non-competitive sport there are different types of injuries that can happen such Physiological and psychological that people can get. Which
responding differently to each injury. So I’m going to cover 4 for each one so that you can have a better idea of what they are ab understand better.
Importance of scar tissue Strain Internal bleeding into or arou
For example, if an elite athlete has broken a bone, in rugby a bad The way that a strain can happen is when you are putting your muscles There are two types of bleeding that can
tackle has occurred and he has broken his clavicle, then the under to much pressure and in result, you strain your muscle because the body, first one can be an (intra) which is
doctors would after cut open the skin in order to get to the bone, muscle can’t deal with the force that is put on against it. Also can be the happens is into a muscle, which leads to
in order to fix the clavicle bone, then stitch scar tissue. movement is longer than it can go which can cause strain. pressure and results in a significant redu
There are 3 different types of strain injuries that can occur. This injury athlete was to get this type of injury then
It’s important that athletes damaged tissues are repaired, as the happens to ligaments and as I mentioned it can come in 3 grades, 1 is the impact and effect on him because to reco
scar tissue must be stretched to form the scar tissue into straight lowest and 3 the highest. One is being the minor stretching, 3 being take from a month or longer as this is a s
parallel lines in order to make it strong, that no further injures complete tearing like in below picture (pectoral and bicep). The signs of will be excluding him from competing sp
would happen. Which will ensure that the muscle is healed well this type of injury are usually identified by swelling, pain and inflammation events! Also, another effect would be is
with the scar tissue, which will reduce the risk of further injury that that can take 4 to 6 months to recover from. weakened if it was his quadriceps then it
from happening! strength as mention earlier, so once reco
For example, you as an athlete is getting ready for a powerlifting playing again his performance could decr
For example if the scar tissue was not lined up properly, athlete competition, and in training, you are going to bench press (lifting weights)
get his strength fully back so others will h
would have a lot of problems, on skin, if the skin is too tight it will and you push you’re self too much and end up getting injured and tore
over him because they will be fitter than
effect the range of movement and he would be at discomfort as you’re bicep and chest (grade 3 injury). This will have a negative effect on
will cause the athlete to struggle in game
you would not be able to move you’re hand in certain ways as the the psychology as physical, as it will impact on you as an athlete. Because
skin would get really tight! If pulled to hard it could also rip the you will not able to train no more until recovered fully and if someone life
skin because it was not able to hold pressure, because of the skin is built around exercising day in and day out it will affect his mood as he Inter, is were bleeding is around the mus
tissue lined up incorrectly, which would cause further injuries. won’t be able to produce the endorphins in the brain that help more quickly to heal as blood can escape
simultaneously decreases stress hormones in the body. So if it increased athlete playing rugby got tackled in the le
Which will effect the athlete again as he will after stop competing the levels of stress, the athlete can become depressed as he will not know from the contact he ended up getting bru
in rugby in order to recover, which will take valuable time of him what to do with himself. As everything is built around training and leaden blood being around the muscle, it
in competing and most of all the team would be losing a valuable competition and if that is taken away it can be hard to deal with. Knowing effect on the athlete, as doing light speci
player that they would need for example in a big game coming up that you can’t train, you’re physic will be affected which can lead in to the area and directly will help in getting r
which would result in them letting them down and decrease the further depression. So after the recovery, he could lose all of the around it and the athlete will be able to p
chance of the team winning as the athlete can’t play because of motivation to compete again. As the level, you were built need to rebuild of days. Therefore it will not effect anyon
the injury. again. playing because he will be able to play fo
