Health and Human Service Management: Basketball Injury Treatment

This report introduces the application of Health and Human Service Management (HHRM) in sports, specifically focusing on basketball injury care and treatment. It highlights the relevance of HHRM in addressing healthcare issues, reducing injuries, and motivating players for high performance. Common basketball injuries such as ankle sprains and knee injuries are discussed, emphasizing the importance of effective communication between managers and injured players. The report also touches upon potential legal actions players might pursue in case of injury, including assumption of risk, intentional tort, and product liability lawsuits. Ethical considerations within HHRM, such as unbiased care and treatment, are underscored. Furthermore, the study assesses issues like physical injuries and lack of information, advocating for strategies like non-verbal and verbal communication to improve healthcare outcomes. Trial and error learning theory and expectancy theory are presented as relevant frameworks for continuous healthcare development. The report concludes by affirming the utility of HHRM in fostering constant healthcare development within the context of basketball injuries.

Health and Human
Service

Introduction
• Health and Human Service Management
(HHRM) is one of the most innovative
techniques to provide healthcare services
for a larger wellbeing
• This technique is a very useful to be
implemented in the sports arena
• This technique can be utilized in various
sports for sports injury care treatment
• There are intervention processes, barriers
and limitations of HHRM to develop in
the sports arena
• Effective communication is the most
useful technique to develop the
intervention process and produce the
desired outcome

Rationale
• HHRM technique is useful to locate,
identify, mitigate and provide intervention in
healthcare issues (Spitzmueller, 2018).
• It is the most relevant theoretical framework
for the basketball coaches to reduce the
injuries and motivate for high performance
• Ankle sprains, jammed fingers, knee
injuries, deep thigh bruising and stress
fractures are the injury issues that the
basketball players use to suffer
• The development of effective
communication between the manager and
the injured players is essential to address the
issues

Legal acts
The players can pursue three main lawsuits
incase of an injury during a match:
• Assumption of the risk doctrine (Spitzmueller,
2018).
• Intentional tort lawsuit.
• Product liability lawsuit.

Value and beliefs
• The ethical perspective of
HHRM provides indiscriminate
care to each of the target
audience (Martins, Isobar&
Freshman, 2017).
• The manager of the basketball
team needs to be unbiased for
any particular issue or player
• Unbiased treatment process must
be provided with ethical integrity

Issue assessment
• Physical injury is the most common incident of
basketball since it is a body contact game
• Cramps, knee problem and jammed fingers are the
most common incidents
• These issues can be eradicated with the effective
utilization of HHRM strategy (Martins, Isouard&
Freshman, 2017).
• The managers of the basketball team must assess the
type of injury properly before care treatment
• Dressing, ice rubbing and painkiller are the first aid
required for the immediate injury
• The severely injured player should be provided with
extra care and sent for medical tests
• Thus, this HHRM process is considered to be most
effective for the injury treatment

Lack of Information
• The healthcare information and the reason for
injury is required for the effective
implementation of the healthcare treatment
under the HHRM framework
• The previous medical record of the basketball
player, food habit, type of exercise and type of
injury are the necessary required information
• The lack of effective information can be
identified as a key hindrance to the effective
implementation of HHRM (Martins, Isouard&
Freshman, 2017).
• The information can be gathered from the
injured player and the doctor examining the
wound.

Trial and Error learning theory
• The trial and learning theory is
conceptualized as a learning process
through constant effort until it gets
success
• This theory is an applicable theory on
the context of HHRM issue (Martins,
Isouard& Freshman, 2017).
• The manager of the basketball team
should make a constant effort for the
physical and healthcare development
of team members

Expectancy theory
• This theory focuses on
constant healthcare
development of the basketball
player under HHRM
framework
• This theory concentrates on
constant physical development
by eradicating the injuries
• Efforts are made to develop
the overall healthcare scenario

Strategies
The two strategies which can be used are:
• Non-verbal communication- during a match
non-verbal communication can be very helpful
to avoid any injuries as it helps in maintaining
cooperation within the players.
• Verbal communication- verbal communication
can be used by the sports manager to warn the
players on the ground or even motivate them.

Conclusion
• The study has experimented the HHRM health
framework
• The experiments are made on the context of
basketball injuries
• A constant healthcare development through
HHRM adaptation can be a useful outcome.

References
• Spitzmueller, M. (2018). Remaking “Community”
Mental Health: Contested Institutional Logics and
Organizational Change. Human Service
Organizations: Management, Leadership &
Governance, 42(2), 123-145. doi:
10.1080/23303131.2017.1422071
• Martins, J., Isouard, G., & Freshman, B. (2017). The
human dimension of health service management.
Australian Health Review. doi: 10.1071/ah17063