Throughout my junior and senior year of high school I was a part of the Student Athletic Training Team in the Sports Medicine Department of Wakefield High School. To help better understand the injuries we encountered out in the field I enrolled in the Sports Medicine class that was offered by the school. The class was taught by the Head Athletic Trainer who believed in hands on learning, especially for his student trainers. During the duration of the course and my time as a member of the team we saw numerous different types of injuries but there were three that happened more frequently than the others.
The first injury to happen frequently, usually seen in football and soccer players, is an ankle sprain, which is an injury to the ligaments
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A muscle strain is the stretching or tearing of a muscle or its attaching tendons. This injury is caused by the violent, forceful contraction or the overstretching of the muscle or tendon. This is usually caused by muscle fatigue, overuse or improper use and stretching of the muscle. A first degree strain is due to the overstretching and micro or slight tearing of the muscle or tendon. There is no gross fiber disruption but there is mild pain and tenderness. Typically, the athlete has full range of motion without pain but pain can sometimes occur during a resistive muscle contraction; for example, pushing against a wall or pulling against a resistance band. A second degree muscle strain is the further stretching or partial tearing of a muscle or tendon fibers which causes immediate pain and localized tenderness and disability. There are varying degrees of swelling, ecchymosis, decreased range of motion and strength based on the location of the injury. This degree of a strain causes pain with active muscle contraction and passive muscle stretching (i.e. walking or lifting weights). There may also be a palpable or tangible defect to the area that is affected by the …show more content…
The most common muscle to rupture is in the group of muscles of the rotator cuff. The rotator cuff is a part of the shoulder that is composed of four muscles which keep the head of the humerus in the shoulder socket. The four muscles that make up the rotator cuff are: the supraspinatus (which is the most common muscle to rupture), infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis. There are four levels of a rotator cuff tear: a grade one, a small and partial tear (less than 1cm deep); a grade two, a medium and partial tear (1-3cm deep) which does not exceed one-half of the tendon thickness; a grade three, a large but partial tear (3-5cm); and a grade four, a massive and partial or complete tear (greater than 5cm deep). The symptoms of a rotator cuff tear are: pain at rest and at night, particularly if weight is on the affected shoulder, pain when lifting and lowering the arm or with specific movements and a change in the range of motion. There will be weakness when lifting or rotating the affected arm with possible crepitus or crackling sensation. Although there are multiple degrees of a rotator cuff tear, the symptoms are relatively similar with the intensity of the pain varying throughout the extent of the injury. Unlike the previous injuries, this injury is normally treated with surgery. Whether the
The movie Varsity Blues is riddled with sports related injuries. The audience is shown the dangers of playing while injured, as well as the consequences of the immense pressure put on student athletes. In almost all cases of injury in the movie, the treatment of these injuries is carried out entirely wrong. While watching the movie, the audience sees injuries ranging from torn ligaments and muscle strains to a broken nose, a concussion, and dehydration.
Have you ever experience a hamstring strain? Do you know how unsafe it can be? One of the common groups of people to go through hamstring injuries, are athletes who indulge in sports that involve jumping and explosive sprinting. In addition of hamstring injuries, they can be very frustrating to deal and treat with. The hamstrings are composing of tendons that attach three large muscles, the biceps femoris, semitendinosus, and semimembranosus. These three muscles helps one knee to bend and extend to his or her hip; however, when one or more of these muscles gets stretched too far and starts to tear, it may cause plenty of pain due to the pulled hamstring.
• Second-degree. A ligament is partially ruptured, and you may have some difficulty moving your hand normally.
friend’s muscles in a stretched position. How does this explain her seeming loss of strength?
Hamstring Strains (HS) are identified by acute pain in the thigh with disruption of the muscle fibres, with 47% of all HS studies stating that the BF muscle is affected (3). This can be explained because the BF muscle tendon and muscle fibres are where the most common distribution of the ground force produced during running (3). Eccentric contraction is explained by a study from Guex (4) stating that between 75-85% of the running cycle the hamstrings are undergoing an active lengthening contraction. Having this amount of eccentric contraction upon the muscles has the potential to cause an overuse injury (4). At 85% of the running cycle, the SM, ST, and BF are stretched by 8.7-12.0% which is beyond their optimum lengths (4).
2nd Degree Sprain: A 2nd Degree sprain causes partial tearing of the ligament and is characterized by bruising, moderate pain,
When the musculature is either stretched or contracted exceeding its normal capacity, muscle strain is the result. According to Porth (2011), strain is a stretching injury that occurs following a mechanical issue, for example, unusual contraction of the muscle or with extreme forcible stretch (Porth, 2011). Although some musculoskeletal injuries of the mid back are caused by direct trauma, more frequently the cause is indirect trauma. Indirect trauma often results in disruption of muscle fibers, the muscle-tendon junction, or the tendon itself (Eagles & Stevenson,
According to yard house from “ A comparison of high school sport injury surveillance data reporting by certified athletic trainer and coaches”, “High school athletes sustain more than 1.4 million injuries annually”. Many of these injuries are caused because public high school do not provide enough professional care for athletes. Some of the reasons that athletes are not provided with right care is because of insurance, proper equipment and educated professionals to treat injuries.
When a patient tries to work through the aches and pains of either rehab or activities of daily life, they can develop pinpoint pain in their muscle due to compensation patterns that may hinder their performance. These pinpoint pains are commonly referred to as either active or latent trigger points. Active trigger points are known as highly localized, hyperirritable, taut bands of skeletal muscle fibers that can be felt by the patient without any palpation; while latent trigger points are pain-free until stimulated with palpation (Morihisa,Eskew, McNamara, & Young, 2016). These trigger points have been seen to be the cause of up to 85% of patients with the chief complaint of muscular pain (Unverzagt, Berglund, & Thomas, 2015). It is because of this that recent research on a technique called dry needling, has recently taken the sports medicine field by storm.
When a patient tries to work through the aches and pains of either rehab or activities of daily life, they can develop pinpoint pain in their muscle due to compensation patterns that may hinder their performance. These pinpoint pains are commonly referred to as either active or latent trigger points. Active trigger points are known as highly localized, hyperirritable, taut bands of skeletal muscle fibers that can be felt by the patient without any palpation; while latent trigger points are pain-free until stimulated with palpation (Morihisa,Eskew, McNamara, & Young, 2016). These trigger points have been seen to be the cause of up to 85% of patients with the chief complaint of muscular pain (Unverzagt, Berglund, & Thomas, 2015). It is because of this that recent research on a technique called dry needling, has recently taken the sports medicine field by storm.
Millions of people across the United States suffer from either Bursitis or a rotator cuff injury every year. Although sometimes the two can be misconceived, they are very different in all actuality. Bursitis is the inflammation or irritation of the bursa. A bursa is a fluid-filled sac used as a bumper near the joints to reduce friction. There are many bursae located in your body, some of which being in the hip, shoulder, wrist, and elbow. However, a rotator cuff injury only affects the shoulder area of the body. The “rotator cuff” is composed of the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, subscapularis, and teres minor muscles. There is only one main way to be diagnosed with Bursitis and it happens when you overuse a joint in sports or on the job. You can put the bursa under pressure for a long time, thus causing the bursa to become inflamed.
Tendon are small cord like bands that connect muscle to the bone. They have an important role in the body. When they get hurt, the tendons start micro tearing. If it gets worse it will
A repetitive motion strain injury can happen when you repeat the exact same motion continuously, resulting in a body part becoming damaged. This can happen to athletes with injuries like tennis elbow, but can also happen to workers that are on assembly lines or a computer all day long. This type of injury usually occurs to people who have jobs that require them to do strain-inducing, repetitious movement, or motions in awkward positions.
This causes these muscles to become stronger. When this happens, you’re posture is affected. The body is not aligned correctly which may cause injury down the road. Many simple routines of stretching can correct this misalignment and make you feel much better.
There are twenty-three different sports injuries. the first one on the list would be an achilles tendon injury. The achilles is the biggest tendon in your body, it is very common for this tendon to get injured. The tendon gets injured in the following sports such as basketball, baseball, softball, football, soccer, tennis, volleyball, running, dancing, and gymnastics.