Sports First Aid. These blogs will give first aid hints, tips and knowledge to sports coaches and practitioners about doing real first aid in their sporting environment.
From sprains and strains to fractures and dislocations, these blogs will give advice on when you should keep a player on the pitch or they need to be stopped from playing.
There are problems associated with rings, body piercings, hair ribbons, necklaces and even watches. In general sports coaches and sports governing bodies recommend removing jewellery before performing the sport or activity. This advice is pretty universal, even if different sports governing bodies may nuance their advice for their sport. Jewellery should be taken off before…
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Why do footballers cramp up in extra time? What is cramp? Cramp is a painful muscle spasm or contraction. Cramps often, but not always occur in hot weather or following exercise. They are caused by a lack of salts commonly in fatigued muscles of calf, thigh or abdomen. Why do footballs cramp up in extra
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I have twisted my ankle. Will I ever play again? Why are ankle injuries so common in football? Ankle injuries are one of the more common injuries in sports like football. Studies from the Champions League show that over an eleven-year period ankle injuries made up 13% of all in injures on the field of
Can we use the ‘magic sponge’ in First Aid? Can we use the ‘magic sponge’ in First Aid? The quite ordinary sponge seems to have miraculous powers on the football pitch. Coaches and physiotherapists use it to treat injured soccer players who after having a wet sponge applying to their injury seem to be miraculously
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SFA and SYFA First Aid Training for Football Coaches in Inverness and Highlands SFA and SYFA First Aid Training for Football Coaches in Inverness and Highlands. You may be involved with football at a grass roots level support a small club as a coach or volunteer in the Highlands. There are many small leagues in
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SFA and SYFA Approved First Aid Training for Football Coaches in Dundee and Fife SFA and SYFA Approved First Aid Training for Football Coaches in Dundee and Fife. Perhaps you support the Dark Blues or any other local team. You may be a volunteer, youth team or cub coach, but are you prepared if the
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SFA / SYFA First Aid Training in Strathclyde, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Renfrewshire. SFA and SYFA First Aid Training in Strathclyde, Lanarkshire, Lothian and Renfrewshire based in Glasgow, the home of football. Glasgow is the home of Scottish football and the surrounding counties are the stronghold of soccer in Scotland. It doesn’t matter who is playing football
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Shinty is a fast game with balls reaching high speeds. With the use of shoulder tackles, and players swinging camans, injuries are not uncommon. Many injuries are minor and can be dealt with pitchside by a qualified first aider. Shinty clubs have a legal duty of care responsibility to provide adequate first aid and either deal with
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The Scottish FA and the Scottish Youth FA recommend that all coaches take a first aid course in order to be able to deal with accidents in training and on the pitch. There isn’t always another first aider nearby so each coach should have some first aid training. First Aid Training Co-operative has been running
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Should My Sports Team Have a AED? According to the British Heart Foundation, 60,000 people each year suffer a cardiac arrest outside a hospital. A casualty suffering from cardiac arrest is very unlikely to survive without an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), with survival rates as low as 5%. However if defibrillation is delivered promptly, survival
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