A Nurse’s Role in Educating Parents about Sports-Related Injuries in Youth Injuries due to sports have become an increasing health problem in our society, often resulting in lifetime injuries or even death. Participating in sports is a popular activity among many school-aged children and can be very beneficial for a child’s health. A few of the reasons parents encourage their children to play sports are to help them build self-confidence, maintain a proper weight, promote a healthy heart, and decrease the risk of diabetes. While this type of physical activity can offer many health benefits for a child, sports can also have negative consequences if parents are not cautious. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “more than 2.6 million children 0-19 years old are treated in the emergency department each year for sports and recreation-related injuries” (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017). Nurses have the responsibility of providing uneducated parents information pertaining to sports safety to ensure their child remains healthy. Although nurses can provide parents with an overwhelming amount of information, knowing how to identify signs or symptoms of a sports injury, providing adequate nutrition, and making sure children have appropriate equipment are important topics that need to be discussed with parents. Today, two of the most common sports-related injuries are concussions and musculoskeletal injuries. An excessive force to the
When playing any athletic sport, there are multiple risks that a player, such as I, may encounter while participating in each sport. Growing up in a sports family, meant I played multiple sports as a young athlete, such as, baseball, football, basketball and swimming. During my younger sports years, I cannot recall any major injuries or concussions in any of the sports I played. While practicing and participating in any sport or activity it is necessary to take precautions, by using the proper equipment and good technique before, during, and after the activity. As an athlete with many hours of practice and conditioning, I felt I ready for almost anything life could throw at me. As an athlete, I have pushed my body to the limit and my body started to push back with injuries leading to partial fractures, MCL tears, and UCL strain.
A Worldwide survey of emergency room visits shows that about every 25 seconds, a young athlete visits a hospital emergency room from a sports-related injury (Loehrke and Healy, USA TODAY). Occasional bumps and bruises are expected when kids play sports, but when almost 1.4 million kids are injured and sent to hospitals its catches someone’s eye. Sprains, strains, fractures, contusions, abrasions, and concussions all top the list of ER diagnoses for kids age 6-19. That’s averaging a cost of up to 935 million a year. Many believe these are preventable (Carr, Safe Kids).
Sports are great to keep you in shape and to have fun but there is also a heavy risk of getting injured. Injuries such as pulling a hamstring or breaking an arm can lead to many complications. There are 2 injuries that are pretty common but they are some of the worst injuries. That is an ACL tear and a concussion.
According to yard house from “ A comparison of high school sport injury surveillance data reporting by certified athletic trainer and coaches”, “High school athletes sustain more than 1.4 million injuries annually”. Many of these injuries are caused because public high school do not provide enough professional care for athletes. Some of the reasons that athletes are not provided with right care is because of insurance, proper equipment and educated professionals to treat injuries.
causes permanently injured players. Although sometimes permanent and serious injuries occur but cross-training dimensions the chance of this because different sports allow for different muscle groups to develop.
Participation in any sport comes with a risk of injury, but football is easily one of the most dangerous, as most who play will inevitably injure themselves at some point in their career. In 2012, youth football caused 394,350 injuries, more than any other youth sport (Sprinkle 11). The overall injury rate in NCAA football is 8.1 injuries per 1,000 athlete exposures (games and practices combined). Furthermore, there were more than 41,000 injuries and 25 million athlete exposures from 2004 to 2009 (“Football Injuries,” sec. “Injury Overview”). When compared to other college sports, football “has the highest injury rate with 36 injuries per 1,000 male athletes” (Thomas, sec. “The Most Dangerous”). Not all injuries are serious; many muscle ailments and bone breaks can heal and never trouble an athlete for the rest of their life. However, other injuries can and do inconvenience athletes for years after the initial injury, and the sheer number of injuries caused by football guarantees that many athletes will suffer that fate. Concussions in particular are a growing problem in football at all levels, with more research and data appearing in the news everyday. Just like more “normal” injuries, concussions can occur while participating in any sport. However, football is again unique when it comes to this issue. In a study using data from 2009 to 2014, college football
Young athletes are at very high risks for injuries during the course of playing sports. It should be recognized that the development stage of adolescent growth is a period of physiological growth in height, muscle, skeletal and with their desire to be recognized by peers. Their belief that nothing bad will happen to them makes adolescents themselves prone to injuries. High school students play sports for various reasons such as scholarships, talents, hobbies, and fame, these reasons make high school athletics an important aspect of the student’s life.
Sports are full of injuries. Some are life changing, some are temporary. Everyone loves sports though. Especially full contact sports such as football. Football causes the most concussions than any other
Sports is part of people’s everyday lives, people even make money off of sports, but how would you like if i told you they are dangerous. You probably would think that is obvious. So why would you have your kid participate in sports that induce pain? Did you know one-third of kids experience sports-related injury? That information was given to me by Stanford. Another piece of evidence is from, Listening To Wisdom From A 10-Year-Old Son About His Head Injury, “ Daddy I’m scared, I only have one brain and I don’t want to waste it playing football.” (Cohen 1) Would you like your child to be frightened like this one? The last thing you want is for your child to have more fears.
The main research of this paper is Sports injuries. Sport injuries are very common in the modern world and it has severe effects in the life of athletes. Injuries related to sport can lead to loss of life, body parts or career depending on the severity of the accident. Sport injuries have several negative impacts on the physical, mental, social ability of athletes. To accomplish the paper appropriately some real-life examples have been included in this research, for illustration. For better understanding of the rise of the sports related injuries, a graph has been mentioned that shows the difference between the numbers of sports injuries recently compared to 2004. Finally the research paper has been concluded by proving that
Background: A 19 year old, collegiate offensive lineman was injured during an in season football game. The athlete felt pain in his right knee and ankle during the game and initially was able to return to play. Later on, he was unable to participate due to the ankle pain. The following day he was diagnosed with a syndesmosis ankle sprain and was administered two stem cell injections in the anterior syndesmosis. Following the stem cell injection, he had no acute distress and no peripheral edema. He did have difficulty getting on his toes and was point tender around the anterior syndesmosis. Stress X-rays showed no openings, but the MRI showed complete disruption of the anterior syndesmotic ligament. Differential Diagnosis: Lateral ankle sprain, contusion, fracture. Treatment: No anti
There are many strategies that parents and children can use to try to prevent sports related injuries among youth athletes. They can condition, the athlete does not specialize in one sport at the same position, and they can understand the fundamentals of the game. Those are a few ways how injuries can be prevented. Here is more insight on how those strategies can prevent injuries.
In the U.S there are thirty million or more children/teens that participate in sports. Out of the 30 million children/teens that participate in sports, 3.5 million of those children/teens get injured each year.
In sports, especially professional sports injury is a great possibly, and a common and very serious injury is plaguing all sports. The concussion is that injury. And over the past few years the NHL and other leagues or trying to crack down on concussions; but those are only partial solutions. In hockey concussions, can come from anything and happen at any time. Thus, proposing a solution or a way to prevent them, is very difficult. As per a study that took place from 1997-2004, results published in 2011 by CTV, states “With averages ranging from 4.6 to 7.7 concussions per 100 NHL players per season, it’s likely that each of the 30 teams in the league will see at least one or two players miss time due to a concussion every year” (Tahirali). Thusly supporting how many players received concussions, even if this study is older. Many people are fighting to get the game changed to combat concussions, and just as many fight to not change the game; although they still do not want concussions.
Injuries play a big role in an athlete's career and his or her overall health, although minor injuries are often nothing to worry about they can lead to something serious especially if the injury is repeatedly being aggravated. scrapes, cuts, bruises, and broken bones are all things to worry about. When a player is injured he or she is losing play time and money and why risk this when there is small but giant steps that can be taken to prevent injuries. But brain injuries are something much more serious even if the player says not to worry because something worse than losing playtime is losing your life. Albert C. hergenroeder has written an article on preventing sports injuries, he says that there are 3 million sports injuries among kids around