Sports Injuries – Basic Principles of Prevention and Care

Introduction: Incidence and Severity of Sports Injuries; Types of Injury Prevention; Strategies for Prevention of Musculoskeletal Injuries; Basic Principles: Anatomical, Pathophysiological and Functional Considerations: Bone Injuries; Cartilage and Ligament Injuries; Muscle-Tendon Unit Injuries; Endocrinological Deregulation and Musculoskeletal Injuries; Nerve Compression Syndromes; Basic and Applied Biomechanics: Excessive Loads and Sports-Injury Mechanisms; Biomechanical Response of Body Tissue to Impact and Overuse; Risk Factors in Sports Injuries: Intrinsic Factors in Injury Prevention: Overuse Running Injuries; Body Composition and Predisposing Diseases in Injury Prevention; The Growing Athlete; The Female Athlete; Sport-Related Factors in Injury Prevention: Training Errors; Regulations and Officiating in Injury Prevention: General Prevention Activities: Sport-Specific Screening and Testing; Warming Up and Cooling Down; Muscle Training in Injury Prevention; Flexibility in Injury Prevention; Proprioception and Coordination Training in Injury Prevention; Prevention of Overtraining; Nutrition and Diet; Drugs, Medication and Doping; Psychological Considerations in Injury Prevention; General Prevention of Injuries in Sport; Principles of Health Education; Specific and Primary Prevention Activities: Protective Equipment: Biomechanical Evaluation; Prophylactic Knee and Ankle Orthoses; Prophylactic Athletic Taping; Sport Shoe Construction: Orthopaedic and Biomechanical Concepts; Orthotics in Injury Prevention; Heat in Injury Prevention and Care; Initial Management of Acute Injuries; Tendon Overuse Injuries: Diagnosis and Treatment