Journal Entry 9

Physical Education

Journal Entry 9

Tuesday 30th October, 2018

Theory

Injury care to prevention was the main focus in today's session. First Aid is the first sub-topic I learnt which is a procedure that requires simple methods of handling an injury or illness until those highly experienced arrived to treat the patient. Learning first aid can help an individual to cope when an emergency arises, therefore, the public is advised to learn first aid. It is also vital to have a first aid kit stock with the necessary supplies needed for such situations. The importance of first aid helps an individual to be aware of situations that can occur suddenly and lend assistance instead of being a helpless person who can only watch someone suffering with pain.

Injury was discussed after first aid in class. Apparently, there are two types of injuries. There are hard tissue injuries which are injuries to the bone and teeth whilst soft tissue injuries are injuries to skin, tendons, ligaments and other internal soft tissue. 

Contusions are called bruises which are caused by a direct blow to the body resulting leakage of blood or fluid around the tissue, however abrasion is the scraping or rubbing away of skin although cuts are tissues slightly cut or rip deeply.

Incision is a clean cut on the skin while laceration is an irregular tear to the skin. Incision is caused by knives or broken glasses but laceration is caused by the direct crushing or ripping a blow of the trauma. 

Avulsion happens when a small chunk of bone attached to a tendon or ligament is pulled away from the main part of the bone.

Treatment of wounds and punctures and were discussed along with some examples shown by pictures. Sprains deals with the tearing or stretching of ligaments at a joint and Strains are the tearing of a muscle or tendon. Both are designated grade one, two and three. Treatment of injuries are called R.I.C.E which means Rest, Ice, Compress and Elevate. Rest means to rest the injury and protect it. Don't do any activity which will cause the injury to pain. Ice helps by allowing the coldness to reduce the pain and swelling. Compress the injury with a bandage helps with decreasing the swelling. Lastly, Elevate means applying ice on the injured area while sitting or lying. The injured area must be leveled above the heart level in order for swelling to decrease.

Dislocation happens when the joint is injured due to a misalignment of the bone structure while fractures are unfortunately a break or crack in a bone. In addition, there are open fractures and closed fractures. 

The last discussion was about the treatment of hard tissues that surprised everyone reaction. Three important points to treating hard tissues of a patient is to: do not move the person at any time no matter what happens, call the E.M.S meaning the Emergency Medical Services and lastly help the patient to be comfortable until the professionals arrive.

After having a good laugh but took serious note of these three points, class ended therefore we had no practical session.