Sport Injuries

Sprains are injuries to:

• ligaments
• tendons
• bones
• skin

Strains are injuries to:

• ligaments
• tendons or muscles
• bone
• skiin

RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) is not the best treatment for what kind of injury?

• Broken bone
• Sprains
• Strains
• Repetitive motion

RICE stands for  

• Rest, ice, compression, elevation
• repair, ice, condition, enervate
• rest, ice, condition, elevation
• relax, injure, condition, elevation

What type of soft tissue injury is this?

• Contusion
• Bruise
• Edema
• Hematoma

List two Safety precautions that can help you avoid injuries during physical activity.

• Warm up, cool down
• Ride a bike with no helmet, wear baggy clothes
• horse play, wearing tight clothes
• no helmet, no worries

a sudden or violent twist of a joint with stretching or tearing of ligaments

• heal

• sprain

• dislocation

• fracture

Continuing or occurring again and again for a long time

• chronic injury

• acute injury

Occur suddenly while you exercise or play

• chronic injury

• acute injury

Restoration especially by therapeutic means to an improved condition of physical function

• heal

• harm

• rehabilitation

• dislocation