Describing a situation

When it hurts…. it HURTS!

1. Describing a painful situation… (the symptoms)

Expressing ourselves, with the appropriate terms you will find on p14-18 in your handbook

For injuries related to sports: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sports-injuries/types/

Let’s describe the following situations:

(for ankles see, NHS website)

2. Posture analysis (finding what causes the situation)

When pain is due to a bad posture, your job is to find out about what causes the situation. What is wrong with the person’s posture?

First, please read the article p.19 in your handbook and answer the questions p.21

• 1. Try and find an example of industry or profession where each one of the 4 types of tasks may cause pain to the people who are carrying them out
• 2. By helping you with the list of common symptoms in the upper part of the text, try to describe what type of pain each of these bad postures or hard tasks may create

Now work on this postural description exercise:

Please answer the following questions (p22):

• 1. What position do you look at first?
• 2. What way do you examine the person?
• 3. What does “tilted head” mean?
• 4. What does “lifted shoulders” mean?
• 5. What does “imbalance” mean?
• 6. What can be observed that suggests muscle imbalance?
• 7. What can be observed when looking at the hands?
• 8. Moving sideways: Write down the 4 various types of head tilts
• 9. Now viewing from the back: what type of back problem can you detect?

-> Now as an interviewer AND an interviewee: describe the symptoms & causes in the situation you have chosen for your assessment.

-> For ideas about ill health risks please browse: https://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/healthrisks/physical-ill-health-risks/repetitive-work.htm