Injury - Acute, Overuse, Mechanisms

Define an acute injury

Osgood Schlatter disease is an overuse injury...

• True

• False

Forces applied to the body during sport and exercise can result in injury, which is the following are external forces?

• The surface

• Force from opponents

• Age of the performer

• Balls and equipment

• Skill level of performer

Compressive forces...

• Push and compact tissues together (e.g. stress fracture)

• Pull tissues apart (e.g. muscle strain).

• Involve twisting of tissues (e.g. anterior cruciate ligament sprain).

Shear forces involve twisting of tissues...

• True

• False

What is the tissue elastic response?

Kinematics is a description of movement without referring to the forces involved, which of the following are injury kinematics? (3)

• Velocity

• The direction of the force

• How quickly the force is applied

• Timing of the movement

• Displacement

State Newton's three laws in order...