What’s on the Common Injuries poster
A 6-row table: Injury · Typically · First response.
Educational reference. Severe pain, deformity or inability to bear weight needs medical assessment.
- Ankle sprain — Rolling outward — Protect, ice, gentle movement early
- Hamstring strain — Sprinting, sudden stretch — Rest briefly, then progressive loading
- Runner's knee — Overuse, load spike — Reduce volume, strengthen hips
- Tennis elbow — Repeated gripping — Load management, eccentric work
- Rotator cuff — Overhead repetition — Reduce overhead, strengthen
- Shin splints — Rapid mileage increase — Cut volume, check surface and shoes
Most of these are load errors — too much, too soon. Progression is the prevention, not equipment.
Questions about the Common Injuries poster
- What’s on the Common Injuries poster?
- A 6-row table: Injury · Typically · First response. Educational reference. Severe pain, deformity or inability to bear weight needs medical assessment. Ankle sprain — Rolling outward — Protect, ice, gentle movement early; Hamstring strain — Sprinting, sudden stretch — Rest briefly, then progressive loading; Runner's knee — Overuse, load spike — Reduce volume, strengthen hips; Tennis elbow — Repeated gripping — Load management, eccentric work; Rotator cuff — Overhead repetition — Reduce overhead, strengthen; Shin splints — Rapid mileage increase — Cut volume, check surface and shoes. Most of these are load errors — too much, too soon. Progression is the prevention, not equipment.
- Who is the Common Injuries poster for?
- Common Injuries belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning movement can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Common Injuries poster?
- Most soft-tissue injuries need early gentle movement, not prolonged rest. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Common Injuries belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Common Injuries?
- Breathing Under Load, The Core and The Hip Hinge sit alongside Common Injuries in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Breathing Under LoadThe CoreThe Hip Hinge
- Is the Common Injuries poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Common Injuries downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Common Injuries poster print at?
- Common Injuries is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Common Injuries loses nothing.Printing guide
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