Preventing Sports Injury Research Paper

Maddy Carles

Period ⅚

4/8/15

Preventing Sport Injuries

Many athletes develop some sort of injury, mild or severe, during their career. Injuries that end careers and put the athlete’s life in danger are becoming more and more common, especially in sports like football, boxing, and hockey. Although all of these contact sports take safety precautions and wear special gear, they are violent and use dangerous tactics. Team doctors and new rules have helped, but the best way to almost completely end this problem is to stop people from getting injuries all together. It is close to impossible to predict whether someone will get a concussion from a head on tackle. But we can use high tech machines to stop a player from playing if he/she has a high chance of breaking their collar bone or tearing their hamstring. Medicine started with spiritual healing in 1000 B.C.. People who practiced it believed that only gods can heal and that witch doctors would channel the god’s healing power into you using a series of traditional techniques. Then came plant medicine, it has been used since prehistoric times and can be applied in many different ways. It can be utilized by being eaten, fresh or cooked, drunk as a tea, inhaled as a vapor, or applied to the skin like an

and rehabilitation. P.R.I.C.E. stands for protection, rest, ice, compression, and elevation. Protection means wear a brace, rest is pretty self explanatory, ice means to put ice on the injury, compression means to put pressure on the injury, and elevation means to put the injury on something higher than the rest of your body. Rehabilitation should take place after the initial injury has healed and should be done by a physical therapist or athletic trainer.(Merck Manuals, “Overview of Sports Injuries”) When rehabilitating, one should not have complete inactivity. Instead, do an activity that puts little to no stress on the