Week 1

• Safety and Practices


  These are the most important in work place also by engaging our self in different kinds of sports like basketball and volleyball to avoid accident in doing such thing.
•  Sports injuries


  These are injuries that occur during sports or exercise.
• The term sports injuries is commonly used to refer to injuries of the musculoskeletal system.
• You can reduce your risk of exercise injury by:

  1. wearing the right shoes
  2. using the correct equipment
  3. drinking lots of water
  4. warming up and stretching properly
• Use pre-exercise screening to identify whether you are at a higher risk of experiencing a health problem during physical activity.
• Increasing the speed of any exercise can increase the risk of injury. 
• Make sure you have at least one recovery day, preferably two, every week. 
• Stop exercising and seek medical help if you experience symptoms such as: 

  1. Discomfort or chest pain or other pain that could indicate a heart attack including pain on the neck and jaw. 
  2. Pain travelling down the arm or pain between the shoulder blades. 
  3. Extreme breathlessness
• Vigilance and safety measures can dramatically reduce the occurrence of injuries.
• Tensile forces are those that act away from the center of the structure, causing a pull or stretch.
• Compressive forces impact the center causing it to bend or fold. 
• Injuries 


  These are damage tissues or organs which occur when it encounters trauma or physical force that is greater than what it can resist or absorb. 
• Injuries in sports and fitness commonly affect the musculoskeletal structure: ligaments, tendons, muscle, and bones, and joints.

  
  

  Muscles - creates movement

  Tendons - attaches muscles to bone

  Bones - anchor for muscles

  Joints - fulcrum for movement

  Ligaments - stabilize joints
• Excessive pronation (flat feet) is the inward rolling of the foot after the heel strikes the ground.
• Three types of overuse injuries according to severity: 

  • Stage I - injury complain and pain only after the activity, game or training session
  • Stage II - injury complain during and after an activity but do not feel it during rest
  • Stage III - the athlete feels pain whether at rest or play