Activity 1

CAUSES OF COMMON SPORTS INJURIES

Answer the following:

1. What are the types of injury?

*Brain Injury *Broken/Fractured Bones
*Burn Injury *Catastrophic Injury
*Drowning *Electrocution
*Fire/Burn Injury *Spinal Cord/Back Injury
*Loss of Limb *Scarring/Disfigurement
*Paralysis

2. What are the types of dislocations?

 The two primary types of dislocations are sessile dislocations which are immobile and

glissile dislocations which are mobile.

3. What is pronation? pronation is what we used to express the up or down

positioning of your hand, arm, or foot. Pronation it means that when a we are
walking our weight tends to be more on the inside of your foot.

4. What is overpronation? Overpronation it means that the foot rolls inward as a

human move. It is overpronation if the footprint that shows a large percentage of
the entire foot. The imprint shows that the arch is very low, meaning that you're
more likely to have flat feet. If you overpronate, the outer edge of your heel hits
the ground first, and then your foot rolls inward onto the arch.