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HSC Stuff => HSC Creative Arts/PDHPE => HSC Subjects + Help => HSC PDHPE => Topic started by: paigek3 on October 06, 2017, 02:44:28 pm
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I was just looking at one of the questions from 2011 which said "Outline types of soft tissue injuries"
In the sample answers they only included tears, sprains and contusions, how come lacerations, skin abrasions and blisters were not included?
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Probably because it was from an old Syllabus? :/
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I was just looking at one of the questions from 2011 which said "Outline types of soft tissue injuries"
In the sample answers they only included tears, sprains and contusions, how come lacerations, skin abrasions and blisters were not included?
I'm not sure what the correct answer is according to your HSC syllabus, but to me, the reason is the distinction between skin injuries and soft tissue (muscle, ligaments, tendons, etc.) injuries - they tend to be a different mechanism, different things happen at a cellular level, etc.
Technically, skin is a soft tissue, but I also see it get classified separately. I guess you can also talk about this as the difference between "open" wounds and "closed" wounds, but that's probably going off on a tangent.
There's also a general triphasic healing response that occurs (broadly speaking) with soft tissue injuries (inflammatory, repair and remodelling phases) - and I'd imagine that skin follows a bit of a different healing pattern.
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Another point could potentially be because of the weighting of the question. It was only a 3 marker, so it makes sense that the sample answer only included three examples. The actual 2011 'Marking Guidelines' didn't restrict it to just those three, so I'd assume that the others that you listed are also correct. I just checked the PDHPE syllabus and the others you listed are classified as a soft tissue, so I'd assume they'd be correct if you mentioned them too.