Sports Injuries & Assessment
BTEC Assessment Brief
You are a sports therapist for a sports team and they would like to know more about common acute and overuse injuries that they could sustain. They would like to know more about the signs and symptoms to look out for, as well as realizing the common ways these injuries can occur.
They would also like to know how their injuries might heal and the possible psychological consequences their injury could have on their mental state. You will have to inform the players on how their body and mental state could change throughout the period of their rehabilitation.
Learners will produce a written assessment using the template provided. This will address acute and overuse sports injuries, their associated signs and symptoms, mechanisms of injury, and physiological and psychological response to injury.
Accurate spelling and grammar will be evident, as well as authentication through referencing. Learners’ work should be reflective of the full unit content.
Part 1:
In your report you have been asked to discuss common acute and overuse sports injuries. For each injury, you need to include:
their symptoms.
The aetiology (the cause or reason), using sporting examples.
Mechanisms of injury – using the kinetics/kinematics we have covered and sporting examples.
You should discuss at least 4 acute injuries (ligament sprain, bone fracture, muscle strain, joint dislocation) in your report and 4 overuse injuries (bone stress fracture, skin blister, cartilage chondroplasty, joint osteoarthritis).
It is important to include annotated pictures and diagrams to support your explanations and analysis, and to consider the relationships between some acute and overuse injuries (e.g. do some have similar causes?)
Part 2:
In the final part of your report, you should cover the physiological and psychological responses to the common injuries you have discussed.
PHYSIOLOGICAL – The phases of physiological response to injury (Phase 1 – inflammatory phase, Phase 2 – the proliferative phase, Phase 3 – the maturation phase).
What physiological responses are caused by different acute and overuse injuries, you have discussed, at different stages? Link back to part 1.
What factors could inhibit the rate the somebody heals (individual factors)?
PSYCHOLOGICAL – what are some of the main responses people will experience (cognitive, emotional and behavioural)?
How would different common injuries lead to different psychological affects? Consider the situational and personal factors
How does goal setting influence the psychological reaction to injury?
Analyse at least 1 model, such as the ‘Grief response model’. Are there any flaws to this?
