Introduction Injuries happen in all sports and to all athletes.
The ability to manage sporting injuries is an important skill for anyone involved in any sporting situation. You never know when you may be called on to treat an athlete as a player, coach or bystander, or you may even need to treat yourself. The ideal management of a sporting injury involves four stages: prevention, immediate treatment, long-term treatment and retraining (rehabilitation). Quality injury management will ensure maximum playing time for all athletes. Task You are a health care professional who is an expert on a specific sporting injury. You have been requested to give an interview and demonstration on how to manage an athlete with the injury for a sports medicine video. You must complete the following to prepare you for the interview: Understanding Select a specific sporting injury Research the injurys incidence (how often it occurs), its severity and causes.
Planning Suggest a number of ways the injury can be prevented (rules, equipment, technique etc.) Describe how you would assess and treat the injury both immediately after the injury and in the long term. Explain how you would retrain the athlete to prepare them for further sporting activity.
Action You will be interviewed by your teacher about the injury. You must be prepared to answer questions based on the information above and be able to justify your ideas and decisions. You must then demonstrate your immediate managment of the injury on another student. The other student will obviously need to act out the symptoms of the injury effectively (props for bruising, bleeding, swelling etc may be beneficial). Reflecting You will be asked to comment on the effectiveness of your partners managment and the information given in their interview and suggest improvements they could make.
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Understanding
Students demonstrate a clear and wide understandi ng of the incidence, severity and causes of the sports injury Students suggest several methods of preventing the injury, and give clear, detailed and appropriate instructions on treatment and rehabilitation Students demonstrate excellent lifesaving skills and immediate managemen
ASSIGNMENT CRITERIA B C
Students demonstrate a good understanding of the incidence, severity and causes of the sports injury Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the incidence, severity and causes of the sports injury
D
Students demonstrate a limited understanding of the incidence, severity and causes of the sports injury
Students demonstrate little understanding of th incidence, severity and causes of the sports injury
Planning
Students suggest some methods of preventing the injury, and give appropriate instructions on treatment and rehabilitation
Students method/s of preventing the injury, and give sound instructions on treatment and rehabilitation
Students suggest method/s of preventing the injury, and limited instructions on treatment and rehabilitation
Students make no suggestions for prevention treatment an rehabilitation.
Acting
Students demonstrate good lifesaving skills and immediate management using the principles of TOTAPS or DRABC
Students demonstrate sound lifesaving skills and immediate management
Students demonstrate poor lifesaving skills and immediate management
Students demonstrate poor lifesaving skills an fail to manage the injury
Reflecting
t using the principles of TOTAPS or DRABC Students clearly explain several positives of their partners managemen t and comments and suggest areas for improvemen t
Students identify some positives of their partners managment and comments and suggest areas for improvement
Students identify a positive of their partners managment and comments and suggest an area for improvement
Students can identify a positive of their partners management OR suggest an area for improvement
Students are unable to identify a positive of the partners management or suggest an area for improvement
