The heel cord should routinely be stretched before and after practice. How do I stretch this muscle?
What is the ankle should be dorsiflexed and the knee fully extended to stretch the gastrocnemius muscle, and then the knee should be flexed to about 30 degrees to stretch the soleus muscle.
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The talocrural joint allows what two motions?
What are plantarflexion and dorsiflexion.
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What does HOPS stand for?
What is history, observation, palpation and specific testing.
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What does RICE stand for? Why is it important?
What is Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevate. First thing that should be done post-injury to allow the swelling to go down.
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What are the bones that compose the talocural joint?
What are the lateral malleolus, medial malleolus, talus.
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How might you achieve both static and dynamic joint stability during strength training? Why is strength training important?
What is a balance of strength throughout the full range of motion should be developed and maintained in each of the four muscle groups that surround the ankle joint.
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What motions happen in the subtalar joint?
What are inversion and eversion.
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What are questions that should be asked to an athlete with an injured ankle in the history phase?
What is the trauma or mechanism occurred? What was heard when the injury occurred- a crack, snap, or pop? What were the duration and intensity of pain?
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How might an athlete get Achilles Tendonitis?
What is hill running, mechanics, tight gastroc, chronic over use of tendon.
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What are the bones that compose the subtalar joint?
What are the talus, calcaneous.
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How is neuromuscular control critical to prevention of injury to the ankle joint?
What is neuromuscular control relies on the central nervous system to interpret and integrate proprioceptive and kinesthetic feedback and then to control individual muscles and joints to produce coordinated movement that collectively protects the joint from injury.
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What is shin splints? How might this occur?
Sharp, shooting pain on the anterior tibia. Improper footwear, repetitive movements on hard surfaces or overuse.
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What is the athletic trainer looking for in the observation phase of assessment?
What is an obvious deformity? Discoloration? Swelling? Pain? Does the ankle have normal range of motion?
300
What is the kinetic chain and why is it important?
What is the body and its extremities consist of bony segments linked by a series of joints. The kinetic chain concepts likens these segments in their linkage to a chain.
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How many cuneiforms are found in the foot?
What are 3.
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How is proper footwear essential to prevention of an ankle injury?
What is shoes should not be used in activities for which they were not intended. Running shoes, which are designed for straight-ahead activity should not be worn to play basketball, a sport demanding a great deal of lateral movement.
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What ligament is the weakest of the on the lateral side of the ankle?
The ATF.
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How do you determine if the ankle injury is an inversion sprain?
What is swelling, discoloration, pain, lack of range of motion will be evident. Ask the athlete how did the ankle sprain occur. Inversion is generally the reason why.
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How would you treat Achilles tendonitis?
What is RICE, stretch, strengthen, tape.
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What are the lateral ligaments in the ankle joint? There are 3.
Why should ankle wraps, taping and braces be utilized to an athlete that may be susceptible to injury? What method did we learn for ankle taping?
What are is keeps the ankle from an over abundance of lateral movement and inversion without inhibiting planter flexion. Closed basket weave.
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What muscles compartments are responsible for eversion and inversion in the ankle joint?
What are the lateral and deep posterior compartment.
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Why are inversion sprains more common than eversion sprains?
What is extension of the lateral malleolus, strength of deltoid ligament and weight distributions on lateral aspect of ankle. The anterior talofibular ligament is the weakest of the three lateral ligaments.
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What may cause a stress fracture in the lower leg?
What is the result of the bone's inability to adapt to the repetitive loading response during training and conditioning of the athlete and are more likely to occur in the tibia.