Soft Tissue Injuries

P5 Describe first aid and common treatments used for four different types of sport injury’s

Soft tissue injuries like hamstrings can range in severity, a hamstring injury occurs when the muscles fibres become irritated, strained, or teared it can range from a hour of discomfort to weeks out of sport and can cause bruising and discoloration to the area due to blood being realised from the injured muscle. The pain will occur at the back of the leg in between the glutes and the back of the knee. This is a very common injury in sports like football where the local muscles are in high demand, it occurs when over stretching happens for example when kicking a ball, the knee can be over extending causing muscle fibres in the hamstring to tear
They occur when there has been friction on the skin or burns from either heat or chemicals, they are common in sport as the players boot in football or rugby can rub on the foot causing friction and forming this blister. Blisters can usually heal without medical attention over around 7days but if they burst or open up this can lead to infection, where it needs to be addressed
Concussion
Concussions are the most common but less severe type of brain injury, this is the temporary loss of function after a blow or injury to the head it doesn’t last for long. It will provoke disorientation, eye sight malfunction, feeling very dizzy and in some cases mild memory loss. It happens when disruption to part of the brain known as the reticular activating system occurs. Most common in rugby as the head is exposed and open to knocks and injuries. It should be approached if you being to get ill, or the symptoms don’t go away but with rest some water and ice on the head you should begin to feel a lot better
Alternatively, compound fractures these are common in sporting injuries such as football due to the contact. Also in car accidents and falls, other causes are low bone density and osteoporosis, which cause weakening of the bones in every case fractures needs to be treated quickly. Going to casualty is essential there they can re set the bone and help it heal safely casualty deals with all sorts of extreme injury’s accident report forms these are filled out after an injury to understand and document what happened these are useful when determining if there is a correlation between these injuries

Emergency action plans (EAP).
These are put in place to let employers and staff know how to approach an incident and to go about it safely. By putting these in place it can dramatically reduce the severity of an injury as everyone knows how to react in that situation. A poor plan will result in confusion and will almost always escalate the problem
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