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How is injury rehabilitation managed? - Coggle Diagram
How is injury rehabilitation managed?
Rehabilitation procedures
Graduated exersise
Graduated exercise has three main components that is vital to regaining skill and old level of fitness if you're an athlete coming from an injury.
Conditioning- allows the muscles involved to be strengthened gradually to prevent muscle atrophy.
Total body fitness- preserving open brackets as much as possible close brackets the bodies full fitness during the injury rehabilitation allows return to play without losing required sport specific skills of flexibility, strength and endurance.
Stretching - restores range of motion and helps to increase muscle and tendon length with proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) being one of the most appropriate stretching procedures.
Training
Full training should be limited throughout the rehabilitation process. The athletes should return to play only when completely pain free and having full range of mobility of the injured area. Skills and fitness should be developed to return the player to the field of play.
Progressive mobilisation
Progressive mobilisation is restoring full range of motion to the injured area gradually through active and or passive movement by the athlete and remedial practitioner. Movement should be slow, progressive and remain relatively pain free.
Use of heat and cold
Heat
The use of hate and rehabilitation has a number of aims and is done in a number of methods. The aims or benefits of heat application include increase blood flow [delivering nutrients and white blood cells while removing waste], decreased pain, increased flexibility [increases the elastic city of fibres, especially the new ones closed bracket, decreased joint stiffness [increases fluid two joints], increase tissue repair [by increasing blood flow]. The methods for using heat in rehabilitation include both superficial applications.
inferred lamps
Infrared lamps proceed heat via radiation. The lamp is used to apply heat to the engine area, by being shown on the injury.
contrast therapy
During contrast therapy the athlete moves the injured area between an ice bath and a warm bath. This provides the benefits of cold, and the heat
Hydrotherapy
Hydro therapy is a heated pool around 40° that is used during rehabilitation and. It uses heat to increase blood flow, flexibility etc. , while at the same time using buoyancy to limit the force/ weight on the injured area during exercise.
Ultrasound
ultrasound therapy applied heat using sound waves and is used during rehabilitation on dense tissues such as bone or ligaments.
Heatpacks
There are many different types of heat packs, including microwavable wheat heat packs, and chemically heated packs. They are applied to the injured area, much like an ice pack.
Microwaves
Microwaves heat deeper tissue that has higher water content such as muscle an blood vessels. The area around the injury is heated for less than 30 minutes to around 40°
Remember he should not be applied to acute injuries (HARM)
Cold
the technical term for the use of cold in rehabilitation is cryotherapy. Cryotherapy is the local or general use of cold in medical therapy . There are many methods used to apply cold for rehabilitation. The purpose of using cold and rehabilitation is to reduce pain, blood flow/bleeding and inflammation. This is applied immediately after the injury occurs and after treatments/exercise during rehabilitation of the injury. The use of ice packs is well known and is usually applied to the injured area during the first 48 hours of an injury.
Ice massage
During this use of cold, ice is rubbed over the body, or injured area for around 15 minutes. This is not much different to the use of an ice pack.
Cold water immersion/ice bath
The use of cold is when immediately following an injury the athlete places their injured area into an ice bath for around 15 minutes at the time. This depends on the area engine how long the athlete can with stand the cold
Contrast therapy
during contrast therapy the athlete moves the injured area between an ice bath and a warm bath. This provides the benefit of cold, but then the warm bath increases blood flow to the area helping to remove the breeze and providing nutrients for repair. This is not usually used immediately after an injury, but more often during or after a session of rehabilitation.
Vapo-coolant sprays(Cold sprays)
These were sprays often used during games provide an immediate cooling to the injured area. Often used for minor injuries, where the player can continue to perform. They are particularly used to prevent muscle spasms around the injury.
Cryotherapy machine
A cryotherapy machine may be used in rehabilitation for larger injuries of the body. They cool the entire body, but do not target specific areas.
In the first 72 hours after injury occurs, or following a rehabilitation session, it is important to ice the area to aid in the removal of waste products and reduce swelling at the site. After the initial 72 hours, heat can be applied to the injury to increase blood flow and remove the build-up of any waste products. The flow of blood delivers fresh nutrients to the site, helps prevent the development of scar tissue and relaxes the muscles, which may be sore and tight. The use of heat and called for rehabilitation has been around for many years. Cold is extensively promoted during the immediate first aid treatment of soft tissue injuries composing the ice section of RICER.
Rehabilitation procedures are the procedures used by sports physiotherapy person exercise physiologist in their care and management of sports injuries. Progressive mobilisation is the gradual increase in pain free joint range of motion, while graduated exercise, refers to the gradual increase in exercise intensity and the forces going through the injury area. During rehabilitation, procedures help to ensure the athlete does not lose all fitness via the reverse ability effect. Instead, some form of training will still be prescribed and monitored if at all possible.
Rehabilitation procedures ensure that athletes who return to play do so only when they are ready and it is safe to do so. If athletes return to play too quickly, they can increase the chance of getting reinjured. Each athlete will cover from an injury at different rates. Therefore, there are no specific timelines for recovery. As with all soft tissue injuries, it is important to apply RICER immediately to facilitate the recovery of the injured site. For hard tissue injuries, rehabilitation will involve weeks of immobilisation of the injured bone. There are number of procedures, which are necessary components of rehabilitation.
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