[KINE 3575] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (32 pages long)
29 Nov 2016
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Chapter 9: mechanisma and characteristics of muscoskeletal and nerve trauma. Ability to recognize a specific injury to musculoskeletal and nerve structures and understand mechanical factors that produce injuries or trauma is essential for athletic therapist to know. Trauma is a physical injury produced by an external or internal force. When force applied to any part of body results in a harmful disturbance in function and or structure, a mechanical injury is said to have been sustained. External force on body may result in internal alteration in internal alteration to anatomical structures. Different tissues react differently to external loads, this is illustrated by the stress-strain curve. A load is an external force acting on tissues that causes internal reactions within the tissues. Stiffness is relative ability of a tissue to resist a particular load. Stress the internal resistance to an external load. Strain is the extent of deformation of tissue under loading.
