Vocabulary
Damaged cell eating.
What is phagocytosis?
Name the 3 phases of the injury-healing process.
What are the Acute, Resolution, and Regeneration Phases?
The name for a break in the two lower leg bones.
What is a Tib-Fib Fracture?
A life-threatening emergency that can happen at any location along the femur.
What is a Femur Fracture?
Number of compartments in the lower leg.
What is 4?
Flexing of one's foot so that the toes are up.
What is Dorsiflexion?
Most common tissue type in the body.
What is Connective Tissue?
The cause of MTSS.
What is Overuse?
Formal name for a knee dislocation.
What is a Tibiofemoral Joint Dislocation?
Name the bones that make up the ankle joint.
What are the Tibia, Fibula, and Talus?
The formation of new blood vessels.
What is Angiogenesis?
Purpose of the Acute Phase?
What is to wall off the damaged area from the rest of the body and clean up cellular debris?
Most common injury to the lower leg.
What is an Inversion/Lateral Ankle Sprain?
An injury that is common in adolescents who experience excessive muscle activity.
What is Osgood-Schlatter's Disease?
Action(s) of the anterior compartment of the lower leg.
What is Dorsiflexion?
Knowing where one's body is in space.
What is Proprioception?
Purpose of the Resolution Phase?
What is to balance tissue breakdown with tissue synthesis?
Mechanism for a Tibiofibular Sprain.
What is Dorsiflexion, Axial Loading, and External Rotation?
Occurs when small pieces of bone is dislodged from joint and is floating within the joint capsule
What is Osteochondritis Dissecans?
Name the muscle groups in the leg.
What are the Quadriceps, Hamstrings, Adductors, and Glutes?
A force that pushes in towards the midline of the body.
What is a Valgus force?
Purpose of the Regeneration Phase?
What is to put everything back the way it was before injury?
An injury that results in ossification of the calcaneal tuberosity.
What is a Heel Spur?
The name for the structure that can result from an unhealed quad contusion.
What is Myositis Ossificans?
Name the main muscle in the adductor muscle group.
What is the Gracilis?