Sports Injuries

Sprains are injuries to:

• ligaments
• tendons
• bones
• skin

Strains are injuries to:

• ligaments
• tendons or muscles
• bone
• skiin

A ligament:

• Connects bone to bone
• connects bone to muscle
• Connects skin to muscle
• Connects nerves to muscle

A tendon:

• Connects bone to bone
• Connects bone to muscle
• Connects muscles to each other
• Connects skin to bones

What is an open fracture?

• A break with two or more fractures of the same bone
• A break of a bone joint
• One in which the two sides of the break do not touch each other
• One in which the sharp edges of the bone cut through the skin

scraping off a layer of skin 

• abrasion 
• avulsion 
• contusion 
• puncture 

Pointed object enters the body 

• puncture 
• incision 
• laceration 
• abrasion 

What does PRICE Stand for?

• Protect, Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation
• Protect, Rice, Ice Compress, Eat
• Protect, Rest, Ice Compression, Evening
• Please, Read, IT carefully, everyday

The act or process of breaking

• heal

• dislocation

• gear

• fracture

a sudden or violent twist of a joint with stretching or tearing of ligaments

• heal

• sprain

• dislocation

• fracture