Risk Factors
This is designed to show variuos risk factors in sport.
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- Inappropriate coaching/Instruction (Extrinsic)
- This is when, wrong information is given to a sports person for technique and tactics.
- Inadequate warm up (Intrinsic)
- This is quite a common cause of inury and can be corrected very easily as every one who plays sport knows they should do it!
- Poor technique (Intrinsic)
- This is somthing you may do with out realising and may be an affect of your body to suit its needs. For example you take a shot at football with your foot pointing slightly to the wrong way. This is becasue your foot doesnt turn the whole range because of precious injury.
- Poor preperation (Intrinsic)
- This risk can be due to 3 factors 1) Mental preperation 2) Physical condition/fitness 3) Acclimatisation
- Muscular imbalance (Intrinsic)
- This is when symetrical parts of the body are stronger or weaker than the other.
- Postural defect (Intrinsic)
- This can not be helped but is a defect of the body which could cause dangerous technique. For example lower shoulder on one side, may cause problems while doing Judo
- Equipment, clothing and footwear (Extrinsic)
- It is one of the most common risk factors of sport. Caused by objects and things you wear for sport and is possible for them to have a male function.
- Other sports players (Extrinsic)
- This is risk is caused by other people either purposley or in purposley
- Overuse (Intrinsic)
- This is a risk that causes many injuries due to constant use of a certain body part. For example - Tendonitis
- Age (Intrinsic)
- This risk causes differnt types of injury and servity at different stages in your life. For example - broken bones at a later stage in life
- Incorrect technique (Extrinsic)
- This could be a cause of incorrect coaching, could have been practicing wrong. An example is a bowler (from cricket) bending his back to much
- Enviromental (Extrinsic)
- This can be an inside or outside factor of the weather and condtions.