Game Ready Cold Therapy Compression System

However, other resources, such as mobile doctors may be available to prevent the patient from requiring hospital admission (17). Furthermore, certain approaches to pain relief, such as warm running water and cold packs, are not always readily available to paramedics. Thus implementing these procedures as a necessary part of paramedic practice would not prove practical. However, paramedics should be aware of the different approaches to relieving pain for these patients and be further aware that if the resources are available, they should be utilised in order to provide as much relief as possible to the suffering

Physiological responses: damaged tissue, eg primary damage response, healing response, the clotting mechanism; the importance of scar tissue control in the re-modelling process; specific to injury, eg sprain/ strain (signs and symptoms of first, second and third degree), haematomas (inter/intra)

Indicators of readiness for return to play are different for every sport. It is the stage where the athlete completes a series of physical related tests to ensure they are both psychologically and physically able to return. The athlete must have completed rehabilitation before they can fully return to the competition and are required to meet a set of guidelines to ensure their safety. These involve having mobility, being pain free and being able to easily participate in skills and drills as required by all athletes in the team. However, there are two indicators of readiness before the athlete can fully progress to the next stage. The first indicator of readiness is (pain free), which is just ensuring the athlete injury doesn’t experience pain

Ice pack therapy is a treatment of cold temperatures to an injured area of the body.

For baseball players, it is essential to stay healthy. One of the reasons a player tends to focus on healing his body is that if a player sits out injured for too long, he may lose his starting position. Though this is always in the forefront of a player’s mind, the first thing he should think about is healing his body so that he can continue his career. The most common injury to baseball players is “tennis elbow”. Other injuries baseball players deal with are dislocated joints and broken bones. Though baseball may seem like a less injury-prone sport than soccer or football, it can have just as many injuries with life-changing implications as the hard-hitting sports.

Patients are taught to avoid stressing joints, to use warm baths to relieve stiffness, and to use a

In all levels of sport, involvement there is a high incidence of injuries that are bound to occur. These injuries can range in severity, from simple cuts and bruises to season or even career ending injuries. In many cases, the injured athlete is initially assessed and diagnosed with whatever ailment they may have. Next, the athlete is treated for that injury whether it be surgery, physical therapy, or both and then is given time to physically recover from that injury. This execution of treatment is known as the biomedical model, which the majority of physicians in today’s practice use. This plan seems to be universal and effective in many cases. What many

When a patient tries to work through the aches and pains of either rehab or activities of daily life, they can develop pinpoint pain in their muscle due to compensation patterns that may hinder their performance. These pinpoint pains are commonly referred to as either active or latent trigger points. Active trigger points are known as highly localized, hyperirritable, taut bands of skeletal muscle fibers that can be felt by the patient without any palpation; while latent trigger points are pain-free until stimulated with palpation (Morihisa,Eskew, McNamara, & Young, 2016). These trigger points have been seen to be the cause of up to 85% of patients with the chief complaint of muscular pain (Unverzagt, Berglund, & Thomas, 2015). It is because of this that recent research on a technique called dry needling, has recently taken the sports medicine field by storm.

This perspective was extremely interesting. I am the type of person who always questions the status of different modalities and life experiences, but I do not one hundred percent believe everything that they were talking about. I do believe that we need to take out the rest aspect of the RICE method, but I do not think the application of ice should be taken out. We as athletic trainers and physical therapist, use to POLICE method and the biggest difference being the optimal loading aspect of the acronym. Without the optimal loading part of rehabilitation, this will cause the affected area to become even more stiff and possible immobile for a while. The reason why I believe ice could be helpful in this situation is because ice can be used for different things other than slowing down the process of inflammation. Inflammation is not a bad thing as we learned in class, but it can cause pain and loss of range of motion, which could inhibit the use of that infected area and cause for a longer healing process. If the clinician used ice on the affected area, that will cause that area to go numb, therefore the patient will not feel pain, thereby increasing the range of motion. Another major use for ice is it decreases the process of secondary hypoxic injury. This issue of secondary hypoxic is a

Ballet dancers more specifically are prone to hip impingements because of their en pointe position and walking on the en pointe position. Hip impingements can continue to pinch the labrum whether they are dancing, walking, or sitting. Athletic trainers often step in to provide a weekly treatment specific to the athlete. The rehabilitation can include hot pads, ice baths, stretching, and drills. Other forms of cryotherapy, which is something used to help treat an injury, can also be used when an athletic trainer deems it necessary depending on the severity of the dancer’s injury and the dancer’s pain

Melling, Baqar, Eileen & David (2001), knew that warming patients during colorectal surgery had shown to reduce infection rates. In their study, they wanted to

This paper focuses on the prevention and treatment of injuries in basketball. This paper explores the basic concepts of preventing injuries and the different methods to treat injuries that occur as a result of playing basketball. There are a variety of preventive measures to limit injuries at recreational, collegiate and professional levels of playing basketball. This paper will elaborate on specific approaches to injury prevention for each circumstance. Depending on the duration and intensity of play many contributing factors play a role in the prescribed treatment of basketball injuries. This paper will examine the different types of treatment available and the major factors that are considered based on case by case basis. Basketball is an enjoyable sport with the risk of minor and major injury. This paper will give insight into those injuries and remedies to treat and prevent them.

Abstract: Cold packs are based on the principle of endothermic reactions, which means a reaction that absorbs heat from the surrounding resulting in a temperature drop. Due to this temperature drop, cold packs have many benefits when it comes to injuries such as sprains and strains. It cools the local tissue and reduces bleeding, swelling and pain. It also aids in a speedy recovery. The most commonly used chemical in instant cold packs is ammonium nitrate which will be tested in the investigation along with four other chemicals in water. These other chemicals include potassium nitrate, potassium chloride, sodium acetate and sodium chloride. The

The complete treatment for adhesive capsulitis remains unclear even though numerous interventions have been studied. Previously published prospective studies of effective treatment have demonstrated incompatible results for improving shoulder range of motion in patients with this condition (Ruiz, 2009). Non-operative interventions include patient education, modalities, stretching exercises, and joint mobilizations (Kelley et al., 2009). Levine et al. stated that 89.5% of ninety eight patients with frozen shoulder returned well to non-operative management (Kelley et al., 2009). Reviewed studies recommend that many patients have benefited from physical therapy and displayed reduced symptoms, increased mobility, and/or functional improvement (Cleland et al., 2002). However, a Cochrane Review by Green et al. says that there is, “no evidence that physiotherapy alone is of benefit for adhesive capsulitis” (Green et al., 2010).

Rai Chi Chan engages in an experiment using virtual reality to improve the rate of movement of patients with frozen shoulder disease. The experiment was done on 16 subjects who had a average of 58.6 years and an injury span