Physical trauma

because they’re not finished developing and are susceptible to brain damage that could stop their brains from growing. Mental harm, at times, can be more dangerous than physical injuries. For example, low self-esteem can lead to serious psychological impairments and conditions like depression. While it may be true that physical fitness is important, there are still options and activities that cause a lot less harm and fewer risks are necessary. Parents and coaches both should work harder to keep

weakness. There should be some anti-inflammatory taken to help minimize the swelling and pain of the injury. As the injury heals strength exercises can help get the knee back into full motion. One safe exercise to help strengthen the knee is biking. Physical therapy and weight training may also be a critical part of the healing process to get the knee back to full strength. Before returning to sports an athlete needs to be cleared by a physician who will perform certain tests to watch the function of

time when she received a phone call that her 8 year old son Teagan, was hit by a car, and had multiple injuries. I rushed to meet Ashley at the local airport where they were transporting her son by ambulance so he could be flown out to a level II trauma unit in Fort Wayne Indiana. Teagan suffered several broken bones, stitches, bruising, and a concussion, but thankfully he was still alive. After a short stay in ICU, and once they were able to manage his pain, he was released to go home. Teagan

In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete”, Jessica Statsky talks about the different kinds of students and their approach and mental and physical ability and pressure towards Sports. Statsky differentiates between two sets of children who have physical and mental attributes and towards sports. She gives a few examples and changes that have taken place in the past decades in the sports scenario. When overzealous parents and coaches impose adult standards on children's sports, the result can be activities

Aquatic Rehab for Our Soccer Injuries When it comes to extreme sports, most people picture things that can cause massive and sometimes fatal injuries. However, as a soccer player, I can tell you that not all extreme sports have to be life risking tricks and stunts. Our team and others like us, all have a lot of battle wounds each season and even though we aren’t risking life and limb on the field, we are still in jeopardy of our own brand of injuries that can make it impossible to play the sport

The most common running injuries today are avoidable by making simple adjustments to the alignment of the body position, proper foot positioning, shoes and the running cadence/stride. Running has fast become a popular physical activity and is enjoyed by most everyone. People are finding a healthier lifestyle by controlling their weight and improving cardio capacity from running, however, running is a high impact exercise that can lead to injuries. In addition to high impact injuries, overuse injuries

It’s time to start preventing these detrimental injuries. Since most ACL injuries occur from changing directions quickly, stopping instantly, landing incorrectly, and direct contact. The best way to avoid these injuries is the stop wearing cleats and avoiding sport with a lot of twisting and contact, but that's not fun. An individual can prevent the ACL injury by strengthening the hamstring and the quads. Also changing the surface while training and practicing. Surfaces can increase the chance of

on the injury definition adopted in the study. This means that the lack of standardisation of injury definitions may affect study results.[2, 3, 5, 9-15] For instance, Bovens, et al. [16] used a broad definition of running-related injury as “any physical complaint developed in relation with running activities and causing restriction in running distance, speed, duration or frequency”; they found an injury incidence of 84.9%. On the other hand, Blair, et al. [17] adopted a more stringent definition

How to prevent sport related injuries with today’s youth? With going through this process of writing my research paper I wanted to elaborate about injuries that are taking place with today’s youth in sports. Throughout the semester majority of our class discussions have been based on racial problems in America and police brutality. Even though my topic isn’t clearly connected to anything that we have discussed in class I still used the writing procedures and writing techniques that were instilled

2012). On presentation to the hospital, assessment of the paediatric patient requires recognition of subtle signs and symptoms, often in the setting of distracting injuries (Jones, Anderson and Noonan, 2011). Since history taking from a paediatric trauma patient is especially difficult, clinicians may be forced to use imaging for full evaluation (Tepper, Brice and Hobgood, 2013). This is a difficult decision to make, and formal guidance is lacking (Booth, 2012). With the