The defender falls awkwardly, turning their right knee sharply causing a dislocation. She is in visible pain.
The first aider should look at the patient’s injury and get someone to call for an ambulance straight away. The first aider should perform SALTAPS stop, ask, look, touch, active, passive, stand. If the first aider or physio is trained then they will be able to pop in back in to place. Rice the injury straight away this means rest, ice, compress, elevate. The ambulance should give you gas and air for the pain while in hospital you should have an x-ray to see if any fractures have occurred around the dislocation and also a MRI scan and ultra sound to see if any ligaments are damaged. Once the patient is out of hospital and at home they should not put weight on it and should be on put on a rehab program. They should have at least 6 weeks rest from any physical activities, light movement to avoid sizing up and take ibuprofen to reduce pain and swelling.
A basketball player shoots for a basket loses balance, falls awkwardly and sprains his ankle.
The first aider should perform SALTAPS this means stop, ask, look, touch, active, passive, stand and then carry the patient off the court. The first aider should reduce swelling in the area by using ice and compression. Depending on how serious the swelling if there is little swelling strap, if there is loads of swelling don’t strap. The patient should rest to prevent further damage to the injury and use ibuprofen to stop the pain. Elevation is needed to get the blood circulating round the affected area and to reduce swelling and start healing process. The basketball player should not return until he is fully recovered and should do light training when he is recovered.
A dodge ball player trying to avoid being hit throws himself to the ground with his fore arm taking the impact of the fall. The impact causes a complete open fracture to the radius.
The first aider should perform SALTAPS and DR ABC this means the first aider should check danger, response, airways, breathing and circulation only if the patient is unconscious, then call for an ambulance and get them to hospital. The patient should get an x-ray after 72 hours and an operation to fix the open fracture the hospital will wait for the swelling to go down before putting a full cast on. Once the patient is out of hospital and at home they should not try to lift anything heavy. After the cast is taken off the hospital should provide physio treatment the patient should not return to playing physical activities until fully recovered and should start with light training