Types of injury

• acute injuries


  occurs suddenly during exercise

  pain felt straight away and is severe

  swelling around the site thats ijured

  can't bear weight on it

  restricted movement
• fractures


  break or a crack in the bone
• simple fracture


  clean break through a bone, doesn't penetrate the skin or damage surrounding tissue
• compound fracture


  when soft tissue or skin has been damaged
• comminuted fracture


  when the bone breaks or splinters into 3 or more pieces
• spiral fracture


  winding break
• longitudinal fracture


  occurs along the length of the bone
• buckle fracture


  in children where the bone deforms but does not break
• hairline fracture


  partial fracture in bone that is difficult to detects
• greenstick fracture


  occurs in children where bone partly fractures on one side but doesn't completely break.

  because in young children the bone is.softer and more elastic so it doesn't bend
• dislocation


  occurs at the joint

  end of bones are forced out of position
• strains


  often called a pulled/torn muscle

  when the muscle fibres are stretched too far and tear. occur regularly in team games and contact sport with other players

  prone to strains when intensity is high and overuse of specific muscle groups
• sprains


  sprains occur to ligaments

  strong bands of tissue around joints that join bone to bone

  lots of twisting and turning

  ankle sprains may be: inversion, normal or eversion
• chronic injuries


  occur after playing sport for a long period of time

  overuse injury

  develop slowly, can last a long time, often ignored by performer

  dull ache when resting

  swelling
• achilles tendonitis


  overuse injury causing pain and inflammation of tendon

  back on anklet used for walking, running and jumping
• stress fracture


  overuse injury where area becomes tender and swollen

  common in weight bearing bones of leg

  muscles have become fatigued so that are no longer able to absorb added shock of exercise
• tennis elbow


  overuse injury in the muscles attached to the elbow that are used to straighten the wrist

  pain felt on bony part of outer elbow

  inside elbow pain is called golfers elbow