Case Study : Soft Tissue Injuries

One of the most common truths that people have a problem with when the subject is contact sports is the injuries that are involved in playing such sports. Sports such as Football, Rugby, Lacrosse, and Hockey are all considered contact sports due to the volume of hitting and personal contact that occurs when one plays these kinds of sports. All though friendships and building one's character can take place when playing a contact sport, the risk outweigh the reward when it comes to the research done on injuries that occur every year when playing sports such as the ones

A lot of sports that athletes play are contact sports. When you play contact sports, you run the risk of being injured. One of the more serious injuries that occur is a concussion. A concussion, according to the Virginia

The body’s primary reaction to an injury is tissue destruction. The degree of tissue destruction will greatly depend on the injurious force. Secondary damage may occur from cell death. Cell death occurs because of the hypoxia associated with the injured area. The damage done in the primary stage

 This can be defined as a physical injury which has been caused by actual bodily

Axel and skeleton frame injuries are something that are very common in the world of sports. The National Football Ledge(NFL) has a foundation of physical impact and is very strenuous on the axel and skeletal frame. Thoracic disc herniations in the one of the most common injuries the NFL and it requires the greatest amount of time to recover which is 189 days. Thou the injury is very high in football nearly 15 percent of American suffer from Thoracic Disc Herniation. Degeneration the most common cause of Thoracic disc herniation “As a disc's annulus ages, it tends to crack and tear. These injuries are repaired with scar tissue. Over time the annulus weakens, and the nucleus may squeeze (herniate) through the damaged annulus. Spine degeneration

Sport injuries have come to the forefront with the worldwide coverage of all sports. Of these injuries, the most common is knee injuries. A large portion of knee injuries are Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) stains and tears.

The most vivid injury in my mind is one that still shows today on my right ankle.

You can have many muscle injuries, so we are going to be diving into some of the main muscle injuries.

The internal examination revealed four blunt injuries distributed in the thoracic and abdominal regions as shown in Table 1 and Figure 1A and 1B.

Why do you get injured in a soft sport even though you shouldn’t? In a non-rough sport like basketball you can get injured by landing wrong, tripping, and when someone passes you the ball without you noticing. There are some games where it could be very rough and you could get injured, but that is why there is a ref to stop it from getting out of control. There are also dangerous sports out there like football, soccer, boxing, lacrosse, and even scuba diving.

Because of their genders, male and Female athletes have different injuries. Many injuries differ according to the athletes gender, furthermore there are numerous type of injuries in sports today. “Specific to body

Most athletic injuries occur from the repetitive motion of a specific body part, which causes pressure on whichever joint is being used. The two main types of injuries that do most damage is acute and overuse injuries. Acute injuries usually occur due to an unexpected trauma. For example, collisions dealing with players to player contact. The most recurrent acute injury among athletes include bruises, partial or even complete tear of the muscles and lastly fractures. Not all injuries are caused by a sudden twist, fall, push, or collision. Overuse injuries occur over time, when an athletic activity is repeated more often than it is suppose to, the body unfortunately can not heal in a short amount of time between playing. An overuse injury can affect ligaments, bones, muscles, tendons, and growth plates. The way the body grows is usually at an even rate, first the bones grow, which pull to make tight muscles and tendons. When this does not occurs and the plates grow at uneven growth pattern, it causes young athletes to be more prone to tendon, muscle, and growth plate injuries. Baseball is one of the leading sports because of the overhand pitching, it can be related with an injury to the elbow. The two main sports dealing with injury to the wrist or elbow is tennis

There are various categories of injuries associated with sports. Participating in basketball involves the use of various muscles, joints, ligaments and bones. Injuries to these areas can be mild, moderate, serious, severe and sometimes debilitating. They can also be generally defined as acute, traumatic or overused. There are some injuries commonly associated with basketball.

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A sports injury can be described as just an injury you get while playing sports. A sports injury could be just a sprained ankle, hamstring pull, shin splints, acl tear and a groin pull. Of course there are a lot more types of sports injuries that can be specified but those are just some of the more common injuries, the most common injuries that occur in sports would be strains and sprains (Hoffman, 2005).