Title: Identify catastrophic injuries.
Course: Sports Medicine/Athletic Training I (Condensed) (14062-IA) > Section: Understanding Injuries and Illnesses

Identification should include injuries and conditions resulting in permanent disability or death:

- Acute (e.g., spinal injury, traumatic brain injury, profuse bleeding, shock)
- Environmental (e.g., lightning strike, exertional heat illness)
- Cardiac conditions, congenital or acquired (e.g., heart attack, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias)

See lightning safety (https://www.nata.org/press-release/031813/nata-issues-position-statement-lightning-safety) on National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) website.
See best practice recommendations on sudden cardiac deaths (http://natajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.4085/1062-6050-48.4.12?code=nata-site) from the Journal of Athletic Training.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are some symptoms of catastrophic injuries?
- How can catastrophic injuries be prevented?

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Chapter 16 Chronic Health Conditions and Physical or Functional Limitations

- Define and describe the cause and symptoms of selected chronic health conditions.
- Describe the characteristics of selected health and age-related physical and functional limitations to exercise.
- Recognize how the conditions discussed in this chapter affect exercise training variables within the OPT™ model.
- Recognize how acute and chronic responses to exercise vary in clients with chronic health conditions or physical or functional limitations compared with apparently healthy clients.
- Describe how to modify program design for clients with chronic health and physical or functional limitations.