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Glossary of Injury
Terms
Catastrophic Injury:
sport injury that resulted in a brain or spinal cord injury or skull or
spinal fracture.
Complete Neurological Recovery:
no disability results from the injury.
Direct Injury:
those injuries which resulted directly from participation in the skills
of the sport.
Fatality:
death.
Incomplete Neurological Recovery:
disability results from the injury.
Indirect Injury:
those injuries which were caused by systemic failure as a result of exertion
while participating in a sport activity or by a complication which was
secondary to a non-fatal injury.
Non-fatal Injury:
permanent servere functional disability results from the injury.
Serious Injury:
no permanent functional disability but servere injury (example: a fractured
vertebra with no paralysis).
Last updated: February 16, 1999
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