Concepts of Sports Injuries

Sprains are injuries to:

• ligaments
• tendons
• bones
• skin

Strains are injuries to:

• ligaments
• tendons or muscles
• bone
• skiin

A ligament:

• Connects bone to bone
• connects bone to muscle
• Connects skin to muscle
• Connects nerves to muscle

A tendon:

• Connects bone to bone
• Connects bone to muscle
• Connects muscles to each other
• Connects skin to bones

Which statement is true?

• Warm-ups are important for increasing flexibility
• Cool-downs are important to relax muscles used during exercise.
• Warm-ups and cool-downs are equally important.
• They are all true statements.

What kind of fracture is shown in the picture?

• Open or compound
• Closed or simple

A __________ occurs when a joint comes apart and stays apart with the bone ends no longer in contact.

• fracture
• sprain
• dislocation
• strain

What is an open fracture?

• A break with two or more fractures of the same bone
• A break of a bone joint
• One in which the two sides of the break do not touch each other
• One in which the sharp edges of the bone cut through the skin

scraping off a layer of skin 

• abrasion 
• avulsion 
• contusion 
• puncture 

Partial tearing away of a body part

• avulsion 
• abrasion 
• contusion 
• strain