Sports injury

AS and A Level Physical Education (Sport & Coaching)

Tomos Green Sports injuries assignment1

Introduction

There are many different injuries that can happen any time of the day or night. There are many different sports in which you can get these injuries. I have chosen to do my assignment on these 3 sports:

Rugby as it is a major contact sport and so there are many injuries to be found. This is the most common sport in Wales at the moment.
Badminton as it is a fast game so it is different to rugby as it is a single game or doubles game. It is a popular game to play in PE lessons but it isn’t a very popular game it is barely televised.
Basketball as it is in the middle of both the other sports. It is a team game and it is fast but it is a non contact sport well meant to be. It isn’t a very common game in Britain it is played in some PE lessons but it i9s the second most commonly played game in the US.

Task 1

There are many intrinsic and extrinsic factors to affect a player’s game on any given day.

First rugby. It is a major contact sport, which means there are many extrinsic factors, which can affect the game of a player, which in its turn affects the team. There are many things like the support for the team or the other team can affect you. There’s injuries like a cut by the eye will get you taken off for a while, there’s injuries like a broken leg also that will stop you from playing and if the player does stay on will have long term damage as the bones wont have time to heal that is why it is a dangerous sport is would come into affect with any major injury. There is also the weather good weather its nice and easy to play in but when it’s raining your hands get cold and in this game they are your most essential parts of your body.

Badminton it’s a fast game, which can be played either 1x1 or 2x2, because it is a fast game there are some injuries you get in this game that you don’t in other games like rugby. There is one injury that is commonly known as tennis elbow it isn’t just for tennis its when you do much of the swinging movement which will take its toll on you body especially your elbow and shoulder. There are some others but they interlink with the other 2 sports that I’m writing about which is cramp and it can destroy your game it ...

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Basketball it is the second favourite sport and second most played sport in the US. It cant have many sporting injuries as it is a team game and it can be very fast but it isn’t meant to be a contact sport but some times it dose become one. In this sport there only tends to be the basic injuries like Hamstring that can affect the player’s game. There are some others but they are already spoken about in the other two sports rugby and badminton. The crowd as in the atmosphere is most probity the biggest extrinsic factor for this sport. There is also and injury called runners knee.

All of these intrinsic and extrinsic factors are all valued in the game because with out theses there wouldn’t be any difference between players. All of the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that I have listed in the table cause different factors to a game there are many way in which they can change a game. For Rugby if you have a muscle imbalance there is still a chance that you can still play at a good standard. But interlink this with pour practice there isn’t much chance that you could even play.

For badminton muscle imbalance is very bad to have but with pour practice there is only injuries to come from playing in theses sorts of situations. There is only time out to have in this sort of situation otherwise you may not be able to play again for a while.

Task 2

In rugby there can be a lot of injuries. For most of these injury there is either equipment that can either stop the injury from happening or the coach can train the players in a special way so that the injury is either less damaging or virtually non-existent to the player. Here is a list of the injuries possible for a player to have, which is almost every possible injury, and how the coach or the equipment stops or restrict the injury. These are the most common injuries in rugby:

The head- player where a hat called a scrum cap which softens a blow and just protects the head and the ears.
Neck + shoulders- you can have pads which are a sort of shock absorbers which takes the main of the blow and restricts injury and they also make you look bigger so it intimidates the other team.
Knee- this injury is more common with the forwards as they have the scrum and it can put a lot of pressure on their knees. There is a support that you can have which strengthens your knee but some coaches like to make their players go on special weights, which also strengthen the knee.
Leg muscles- this is cured by the same use of weights as for your knees. They us the weights to strengthen your muscles.

In badminton there can be a lot of injuries. For most of these injuries there is either equipment that can either stop the injury from happening or the coach can train the players in a special way so that the injury is either less damaging or virtually non-existent to the player. Here is a list of the injuries possible for a badminton player to get this also co-insides with squash players:

Eyes- there are special glasses that can be worn is needed for this sport but for badminton they aren’t needed unless the person wears glasses any way.
Sprain and strain of the shoulder, neck, back, arm, wrist, hip, upper leg, knee, lower leg or ankle- these injuries cant be stopped by any form of training technique to stop or prevent these injuries from happening.
Tennis elbow- it can’t be stopped but can be helped with a special technique.
In basketball there can be many different types of injuries. For most of these injuries there is either equipment that can either stop the injury from happening or the coach can train the players in a special way so that the injury is either less damaging or virtually non-existent to the player. Here is a list of the injuries possible for basketball players:
Finger dislocation or fracture- there is no way that a coach can train their players so that this doesn’t happen but there are special gloves that help to reduce the chances of this injury.
Thumb, ankle and groin-muscle sprain- there is know way that you can stop these injuries but you can reduce the chances of having them by using supports.
Runner’s knee- there is no real way of stopping this injury, as it is normally a problem the Synovial fluid in your knee.
Shin splint- there is no real way of preventing this injury as it is had to detect and it can be hard to deal with as an injury.
Shoulder dislocation- there is no way of preventing this, as there is many ways in which it can happen even by falling it can happen.

Task 3

In rugby the most common injury I believe is a pulled muscle. This is very common as in rugby there is a lot of running into people so there is a high chance of this injury, which I think it is the most common injury in rugby.

In badminton the most common injury is tennis elbow. This is common in badminton because there is a lot of swinging, as it is a racket sport. And as it is fast as well your elbow doesn’t have enough time to deal with the shock of the swing when the player go’s for the next shot. This injury is common in most rackets sport as they are all fast games and the Synovial fluid doesn’t have chance to recuperate for before the next shot.

In basketball the most common injury is runner’s knee and dislocations in the thumb. Runner’s knee is very common in any major league basketball player as there is a lot of strain on the knee with the running and jumping in the air. The thumb is dislocated with the ball travelling at great speeds the thumb is easily broken.

Evaluation

In evaluation to this assignment I have proven that there is to some extent that the injuries in different sports like rugby to badminton. Rugby tends to have more major injuries to badminton, as it is a contact sport. Basketball is dangerous by the fact that it is easy to brake bones in the body e.g. fingers. It may not be a contact sport but it is still dangerous. In conclusion that contact sports are more dangerous but they don’t all ways have more injuries to the non contact sports, which are faster, and they have different injuries.