--- title: Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, winded, and when to stop — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, winded, and when to stop», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In the middle of a match your body pumps out adrenaline, a rush chemical that hides pain for a whil --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead… # Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, winded, and when to stop Lesson 46 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/0/) — In the middle of a match your body pumps out adrenaline, a rush chemical that hides pain for a while, so the excited player is the worst judge of how badly they are hurt. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/2/) — A dead leg (Kian in Glasgow yells «Ma leg's deid!», Scots for dead) is a thigh muscle squashed against the bone so tiny vessels bleed inside it; it needs rest and cold, not hard rubbing. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/3/) — Being winded feels terrifying, but it is the big breathing muscle under the ribs cramping for a moment, and breath usually comes back by itself within a minute or two. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/4/) — The golden rules: if you can't walk on it properly you're off, if you can't stand you stay down until an adult checks you, and you never hide an injury from the coach. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/5/) — A rolled ankle stretches or tears the ligaments, the tough straps that hold the joint together, so it swells and hurts more as it cools down. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/6/) — A dead leg is a bruised thigh muscle; cold wrapped in a cloth for about 20 minutes at a time helps, and hard rubbing on a fresh one can make the bleeding inside worse. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/7/) — Being winded is a short cramp of the diaphragm, the breathing muscle under the ribs; sitting calmly with slow breaths helps, and slapping the back or lifting the arms has no good proof behind it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/8/) — Adrenaline hides pain during a game, so the real hurt often shows that evening or the next morning, and an adult, not the excited player, decides whether they play on. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/9/) — A player who stays down may be badly hurt; the referee can stop play for an injury at any time, and coaches can call for it. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/10/) — Someone who can't stand should not be dragged or carried off by mates; an adult checks them where they lie and decides how to move them. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/11/) — A hidden injury played on often gets worse, so a small sprain can turn into weeks out instead of one missed match. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/12/) — Pain can go before a ligament is strong again, so return to sport goes step by step: walk, jog, run, turns, training, then a match. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/13/) — Cramp is a muscle tightening on its own, often when it is tired; gentle stretching and rest usually ease it in minutes, and its exact cause is not fully known. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/14/) — A knee that pops and swells up fast after a twist may have bleeding inside the joint and needs a doctor. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/15/) — Neck pain with tingling or numb legs after a crash means the person must be kept still and an adult calls 999 in the UK or 911 in the US. - ← previous: [Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/) - next →: [A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit them out](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/47-a-knock-to-the-head-in-sport-if-in-doubt-sit-them-out/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)