Questions about the Injury First Response poster

What’s on the Injury First Response poster?

The old advice — RICE against Current — PEACE & LOVE, side by side. The old advice — RICE: Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation; The old advice — RICE: Reasonable for the first 24–48 hours; The old advice — RICE: Prolonged rest is now discouraged; The old advice — RICE: Ice mainly helps pain, not healing; Current — PEACE & LOVE: Protect, Elevate, Avoid anti-inflammatories, Compress, Educate; Current — PEACE & LOVE: Then: Load, Optimism, Vascularisation, Exercise; Current — PEACE & LOVE: Gentle loading early; Current — PEACE & LOVE: Return to movement progressively; Inflammation is part of healing. Suppressing it hard and immobilising for weeks can s…. Educational reference. Get an assessment for severe pain, obvious deformity, or inability to bear weight.

Who is the Injury First Response poster for?

Injury First Response 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 Injury First Response poster?

Early gentle movement beats prolonged rest for most soft-tissue injuries. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Injury First Response belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Injury First Response?

Breathing Under Load, Common Injuries and The Core sit alongside Injury First Response 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 LoadCommon InjuriesThe Core

Is the Injury First Response poster free to download and print?

Yes. Injury First Response 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 Injury First Response poster print at?

Injury First Response 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 Injury First Response loses nothing.Printing guide