SKASC22
Assist athletes to prevent and manage injury
Overview/ [Injury prevention and management is an important component of a coaching programme for participants in many sports and activities. To be effective, injury prevention and management has to be properly integrated into the participants’ programme.
It is vital that coaches analyse the participants’ current level of risk of injury, select and plan activities, information and advice that will help to minimise risks, evaluate and refine the injury prevention strategy and work with other specialists to assess injuries when they occur and evaluate their implications. Coaches will also integrate this injury management/recovery strategy into the wider coaching programme, directly provide activities that will assist injury management and recovery and evaluate and refine the injury management/recovery strategy.
Coaches must also take account of guidelines from national governing bodies, experts and their own prior experience when designing and delivering injury prevention and management strategies.
The standard is divided into two parts these are:
D511.1 Assist athletes to minimise the risk of injury
D511.2 Assist athletes to manage and recover from injury
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Performance criteria
You must be able to: / Assist athletes to minimise the risk of injury
P1 analyse the participants’ current risk of injury in relation to their level of development, previous history and the demands of the sport
P2 select and plan activities, information and advice that will help the participants minimise the risk of injury
P3 where necessary, seek the support of other specialist staff
P4 ensure that your strategy for injury prevention effectively supports and integrates with other programme components
P5 provide your planned activities, information and advice to minimise the risk of injury
P6 evaluate and review the success of your strategy for injury prevention
P7 monitor and refine your strategy for injury prevention as part of the participants’ programme
Assist athletes to manage and recover from injury
P8 work with the participant and specialist staff to evaluate the nature of the injury and its physical and psychological implications for performance and rehabilitation
P9 work with the participant and specialist staff to devise a strategy to assist the participant to manage and recover from injury
P10 ensure the strategy is effectively integrated into the overall coaching programme
P11 provide and support agreed activities that will assist the participant to manage and recover from the injury
P12 evaluate and review the success of your strategy for injury management and recovery
P13 monitor and refine your strategy for injury management and recovery as part of the coaching programme
You need to know and understand: / K1 Definition of terminology in injury prevention and management
K2 the difference in body tissues such as skin, bone, muscles and joints, vascularity and innervation
K3 Inflammation
K3.1 First response to injury
K3.2 Pathology the changes in structure and function and why this occurs
K3.3 Acute and chronic
K3.4 Importance to healing
K4 Aetiology the cause of injury
K4.1 Traumatic and overuse
K4.2 Secondary or compensatory injury
K4.3 Poor management of a previous acute injury such as not fully regaining the parameters of fitness, poor re-education of proprioception, muscle fibres atrophy at varying rates
K5 Body types and growth spurts
K6 The effects of fatigue
K7 Poor training methods, equipment, training and competition facilities, technique, skill level
K8 Types of muscle imbalance such as core stability, agonist, antagonist ratios
K9 Types of postural defects such as congenital and acquired
K10 Foot posture and types of footwear
K11 The components of fitness such as flexibility, joint, muscle, role of stretching, endurance, aerobic, local muscle, strength, speed and power, skill, co-ordination and balance and their roles in injury management
K12 The continuum of injury management such as role of the coach and support staff in musculoskeletal profiling, assessment, diagnosis, first aid, treatment, rehabilitation, testing for fitness, injury prevention, monitoring of technique, monitoring progress and modifying injury management related to the parameters of fitness
K13 The psychology of injury such as reaction of the injured athlete, coach, team mates and support staff and providing support
K14 Treatment rationale , research and its dependency on the stages of healing
K15 Developing measures for injury prevention such as generic and sports specific, monitoring injuries both individual and group and related to the aetiology of the injury, parameters of fitness
K16 Factors to consider when an athlete is returning to differing levels of training and competition such as weights, contact, skills and drills and type of training surface
K17 Coaching practices such as integrating injured athletes into training, including presenting information, modifying training to cater for injured and fully fit athletes, adjusting techniques and intensities according to athlete feedback
K18 The role of others in prevention and the management of injuries
K19 How to co-ordinate a interdisciplinary approach to injury prevention and management
K20 The considerations to be taken into account such as growing athletes, sports-specific, gender, disability, stretching and warm up and cool down
K21 relevance to injury prevention and management of warm up and cool down
K22 The importance of differentiating between stretching and warm up.
Additional Information (Delete any sections not needed)
Scope/range / participant1 individuals
2 groups
3 children
4 youth
5 talent
6 adults
7 people with particular needs, as defined by the technical definition for the sport
specialist staff
1 medical staff (e.g. doctor, physiotherapist)
2 other coaches
3 sports scientists
injury
1 with short term implications
2 with medium term implications
3 with long term implications
Values / [VALUES]
Behaviours / [BEHAVIOURS]
Skills / [SKILLS]
Glossary / Participants
People who will be taking part in the session this could include athletes preparing for competition
Participants with particular needs
this could be people with physical disabilities, learning difficulties or medical problems or as defined by the sport such as; people with disabilities or medical conditions which may mean they need special attention. Participants in a sport that may hold a specialist role and require additional coaching, eg football and hockey goal keeper, cricket wicket keeper, rugby conversion kicker etc
Links to other NOS / This standard is for coaches, t who plan, conduct and review coaching programmes to address short and medium term goals. They will normally be working without direct supervision.
External Links / [EXTERNAL]
Developed by / SkillsActive
Version number / 01
Date approved / November 2013
Indicative review date / April 2018
Validity / Current
Status / Original
Originating organisation / SkillsActive
Original URN / D511
Relevant occupations / Sports Coaching
Suite / Sports Coaching
Key words / [KEYWORDS]
[URN NOS Title] 8