Students learn about:

• Ways to classify sports injuries
  • Direct and indirect
  • Soft and hard tissue
  • Overuse
    
    
• Soft tissue injuries
  • Tears, sprains, contusions
  • Skin abrasions, lacerations, blisters
  • Inflammatory response
    
    
• Hard tissue injuries
  • Fractures
  • Dislocation
    
    
• Assessment of injuries
  • TOTAPS (Talk, Observe, Touch, Active and Passive movement, Skills test).

Students learn to:

• Identify specific examples of injuries that reflect each of the classifications
• Manage soft tissue injuries:
  • RICER (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation, Referral)
  • Immediate treatment of skin injuries
• Manage hard tissue injuries
  • Assessment for medical attention
  • Immobilisation
• Perform assessment procedures to determine the nature and extent of injury in simulated scenarios.

Extract from PDHPE Stage 6 Syllabus. © 2009 Board of Studies NSW.