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SPORT SCIENCE
(Level 1 / 2)

R041
Reducing the Risk of Sport
Injuries
 What is a sports injury?
“Sports injuries result from
acute trauma or repetitive
stress associated with athletic
activities. Sports injuries can
affect bones or soft tissue
(ligaments, muscles, tendons).”
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Sports+injuries
 Sports injury statistics
There are over 22 million injuries a year and the
number is climbing.

During the 2008/2009 Guinness

Premiership Rugby season there
were 769 recorded injuries, an
average of 2 injuries per club per
match.

This was a 22% increase

from the 2007/2008 season.
Influencing the risk of injury
There are many factors which could increase
the risk of sports injury. They include:

Fatigue
Poor
Weather coaching

Unsuitable
Motivation
equipment

What are the specific factors for

your favourite sport?
 Warm up – Cool down
What are the effects of the right kind of
warm up and cool down on performance?
Warm
Cool up
down

Gets the body

ready
Aids for
muscle Helps body to
Increased
physical activity
recovery transition
motivationto
resting state

Improved
focus
 Treatment
There is a lot of support in the UK committed to the
treatment of sports injuries:

Hundreds of private clinics

and consultancies

Government funded web pages

and campaigns through the NHS
to increase awareness of sports
injury prevention and treatment.
 Other risks
Suffering
It’s not onlyfrom any
injury of can
that these medical
affect conditions
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in sport but
stop
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a range in sport,conditions
of common medical but symptoms can
as well.
be triggered by exercise.
Did you know…

David Beckham Dai Greene has

and Paula Radcliffe epilepsy?
have asthma?

Sir Steve Redgrave and

Would you know what
Wasimto do if one
Akram of your team mates
have
had an asthma attack during a game of football?
diabetes?
You will learn…

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