Transcribed from video:
– Broadly speaking, two different types of injuries. Chronic injuries are things that take a long time to develop, acute injuries are one-off events. So imagine you’ve got a rope, and that rope is, there’s a weight hanging from the end of that rope, and you get a nail file. And you slowly file through the fibres of that rope, one fibre at a time, until it snaps. That’s a chronic injury. An acute injury is taking an axe and chopping through that rope in one fell swoop. Same end result, the rope snaps, the weight falls to the floor. Same end result, but a different process, a different mechanism to get there. There’s a single commonality here, and that is excessive loading of a tissue. So if you load the tissue too much, whether it’s repetitive overuse over time, or whether it’s a one-off swipe of that axe, overloading that tissue causes a breakdown of that tissue which then causes an injury. And whether we’re talking about a broken leg, a tendinopathy in the elbow, a muscle strain, there is that commonality between them. Too much loading for that tissue to handle.
