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Physiological Responses : Damaged Tissue

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Physiological Responses:
Damaged Tissue:
Primary Damaged response:
This is the stage of the injury and will become the start of the rehabilitation process. When an injury occurs your body reacts immediately to heal it. This is often referred as the primary response mechanism. The main symptoms of primary damaged response are pain, bleeding and also inflammation.
Bleeding is a short phase of the healing process of a damaged tissue. Bleeding is normally visible when a soft tissue injury happens. The amount of bleeding at occurs will depend on the amount of tissue is damaged and also the amount of layers of skin has been pierced.
Inflammation normally occurs as a second response when damage tissues. Inflammation can occur immediately however …show more content…

This will result in the scar starting to look organised. If the injury has been treated correctly then your should have full strength back with the injured area becoming full fictional again. The type 3 fibres (also known as collagen fibres) that are put in place for a temporary basis are replaced by type 1 fibres, this is because they are a lot stronger than type 3 so they are able to keep the scar tissue in place so help get the injured area back to full strength. This phase is a long recovery process and can take up to 12 months before it has healed properly. Functional rehabilitation helps assist with this phase of the recovery, this is because you need to challenge the injured area to help it fully recover, this can be done before you are able to play again.
Specific to injury:
Sprain:
A sprain is where there is a tear in the ligaments. For example if you roll your ankle while running this would cause a tear in your ligaments resulting in a sprained ankle.
There are 3 grades to a sprain.
Grade 1: This grade is where the ankle will be tender and swelling may occur however the ligaments will not be torn however there may be little tear.
Grade 2: This grade is where the ankle will be more painful than grade one and the swelling will be more visible. This is because the ligament is partly torn resulting with you not being able to move your

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