Ear Care Card
Mat Manual companion guide to "Cauliflower Ear: The Sore-Ear Decision." Print it. The article explains the injury and its clock. This card puts the decision in your gym bag: the early-warning checklist, the hardening ti…
| Art | Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu |
|---|---|
| Family | Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu |
| Level | all-levels |
| Format | reference |
| Topics | safety, gear |
Mat Manual companion guide to "Cauliflower Ear: The Sore-Ear Decision." Print it. The article explains the injury and its clock. This card puts the decision in your gym bag: the early-warning checklist, the hardening timeline, the action chart, headgear standards, a staged return to rolling, and the red flags that mean a clinician today, not this week.
Name: ______________________________ Gym: ______________________________ Coach: ______________________________ Clinician / clinic: ______________________________
THE RULES OF THIS CARD ☐ Treatment of a hematoma is a clinician's work. This card never teaches draining, and home draining is named a fault wherever it appears here. ☐ The clock runs in days. A new swollen ear is seen the same day or the next. "Watch it for a week" is the error this card exists to prevent. ☐ A fresh, untreated hematoma does not train. Full stop. ☐ Infection signs (Part 17) jump every queue in this book and mean a clinician the same day.
Part 1: What Is Happening — The Thirty-Second Version
| Layer | The fact |
|---|---|
| The structure | Cartilage with no blood supply of its own, fed through the membrane wrapping it |
| The injury | Blood collects in a pocket between cartilage and membrane after a blow or hard friction |
| The risk | The pocket starves the cartilage beneath it and then organizes into permanent misshapen growth |
| The fix, early | A clinician drains the pocket and applies real compression so it cannot refill |
| The fix, late | Harder procedures, or the shape |
Ear Care Card
Mat Manual companion guide to "Cauliflower Ear: The Sore-Ear Decision." Print it. The article explains the injury and its clock. This card puts the decision in your gym bag: the early-warning checklist, the hardening timeline, the action chart, headgear standards, a staged return to rolling, and the red flags that mean a clinician today, not this week.
What's Inside
- Part 1: What Is Happening — The Thirty-Second Version
- Part 2: Early-Warning Checklist
- Part 3: The Clock
- Part 4: The Decision Chart
- Part 5: Seeing a Clinician — The Card
- Part 6: What the Clinician May Do — So Nothing Surprises You
- …and 22 more sections
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