KINE 3575 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Five Ws, Palpation, Palliative Care
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Injury evaluation: everyone follows the same basics of injury evaluation. Soap: subjective, objective, analysis, plan, universal format. Chops/ soap: check life threatening situations, history (sample/ pqrst, observations, palpations. If you don"t know much about the person you use sample: symptoms, palpations, observation, analysis, plan. History of the injury: gathering subjective information, what the athlete is telling you and what they are experiencing (5 w"s, mechanism of injury, how, what, where, when, nature, what does it feel like. Severity: ask open ended questions so they can come up with the own answer. If proper history check is done you"ll know the problem right away: active listening. Pqrst: provocative/ palliative, does it hurt for the better or worse, quality, sound of the injury, region/ radiation, where is the pain. Severity: scale of 0-10 how bad is it, does not tell you how serious the injury is, timing, when does it hurt, when does the pain come on, sudden onset or gradual.