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The benefits of physical exercise and sports practice for health are widely known.
Along with these benefits comes a high risk of musculoskeletal injury and its impact on the athlete, the team they represent, their family, and, ultimately, society as a whole.
This risk is linked to a complex interaction of variables that include factors intrinsic to the athlete and factors related to their surrounding environment.
Understanding these factors and how they interact, combined with an in-depth knowledge of the injury, the specific athletic movement, and the mechanisms behind its origin, can allow the coach to identify an at-risk athlete early, intervene preventively, and even participate in the rehabilitation process.
The objectives of Sports Traumatology are:
1. To understand the proposed definitions of injury and the current lack of consensus.
2. To classify sports injuries, distinguishing between different injury mechanisms.
3. To understand the epidemiology of sports injuries.
4. To recognize the impact and high costs of injuries in sports.
5. To identify risk factors for the occurrence of injuries.
5.1. To identify potentially modifiable factors, evaluating and deconstructing the specific movement as a means to identify at-risk athletes.
5.2. To recognize the existence of functional assessment tools and their role in injury screening.
6. To generally recognize the most common overuse injuries and traumatic injuries in athletes.
7. To define concussion in sports and recognize the SCAT tool for evaluating brain concussions. To identify key aspects in the management of an athlete with a concussion.
8. To describe the cardinal signs of inflammation.
9. To distinguish the signs and symptoms that raise "red flags" and indicate the need for medical assistance and/or referral of the injured athlete.
10. To describe immediate post-injury care and its evolution.
11. To identify basic guidelines for the return to activity.
12. To recognize prevention as a way to reduce the impact of a sports injury.
12.1. To identify the different levels of intervention.
12.2. To describe the general principles of injury prevention.
12.3. To define and identify the key elements of an injury prevention program.
12.4. To be able to support, design, and properly implement an injury prevention program.
13. To recognize the fundamentals of injury applied to the specific sport and its respective athletic movement.
13.1. To describe the injury pattern and profile of the main sports disciplines.
13.2. To identify sport-specific risk factors and differentiate them into extrinsic and intrinsic.