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    This document discusses common sports injuries categorized by whether they affect hard or soft tissues. Hard tissue injuries include fractures such as simple closed fractures from football or compound open fractures from ice hockey. Soft tissue injuries involve muscles, tendons and ligaments, and can include abrasions from basketball, lacerations from ice hockey or figure skating, or avulsions from soccer or sprinting. Chronic injuries discussed are tennis elbow from overuse in tennis or golf, runner's knee from sprinting or running, and Achilles tendinitis from activities involving running, pivoting or jumping.

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    This document discusses common sports injuries categorized by whether they affect hard or soft tissues. Hard tissue injuries include fractures such as simple closed fractures from football or compound open fractures from ice hockey. Soft tissue injuries involve muscles, tendons and ligaments, and can include abrasions from basketball, lacerations from ice hockey or figure skating, or avulsions from soccer or sprinting. Chronic injuries discussed are tennis elbow from overuse in tennis or golf, runner's knee from sprinting or running, and Achilles tendinitis from activities involving running, pivoting or jumping.

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    This document discusses common sports injuries categorized by whether they affect hard or soft tissues. Hard tissue injuries include fractures such as simple closed fractures from football or compound open fractures from ice hockey. Soft tissue injuries involve muscles, tendons and ligaments, and can include abrasions from basketball, lacerations from ice hockey or figure skating, or avulsions from soccer or sprinting. Chronic injuries discussed are tennis elbow from overuse in tennis or golf, runner's knee from sprinting or running, and Achilles tendinitis from activities involving running, pivoting or jumping.

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    Hard Tissue- Fractures: A fracture is a break or crack in the bone

    Sports: Football, Volleyball


    Simple Closed Fracture

    Compound open fracture

    Dislocations- When a bone is


    forced out of its normal
    position: Rugby, Hockey
    Soft Tissue- When muscles, tendons and ligaments are injured.
    Abrasions- tissues injured by friction
    Basketball, Netball

    Lacerations- Jagged cuts


    Ice Hockey, Figure skating

    Avulsions- When the complete tissue tears


    Soccer, Runner/Sprinters
    Chronic Injuries- Caused over time and by repeated blows.
    Overstretching, repeated friction, overuse.
    Tennis Elbow- When the tendons in your elbow are inflamed caused
    by the overuse of the muscles of the forearm.
    Sports: Tennis, Golf

    Runner’s Knee- Pain around the kneecap and in front of the knee.
    Sports: Sprinting/Running, Cycling
    Achilles tendinitis- Overuse of the Achilles tendon
    Sports: Runners/Sprinters, Tennis, Sports involving pivoting, running,
    jumping.

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