Vocab
What is the anterior cruciate ligament?
The name of the injury when you tear/stretch a tendon
What is a strain?
The ability to move a joint or a series of joints smoothly and easily through a full ROM
What is flexibility?
The longest bone in the human body
What is the femur?
The doctor that is responsible for treating musculoskeletal injuries
What is an orthopedist?
The medical name for a bruise
What is a contusion?
The swelling of joints
What is arthritis?
The kind of stretching that occurs before the activity
What is dynamic stretching?
Anatomical term for closer to and away from the midline
What is medial/lateral?
Helps to reduce swelling by reducing bloodflow in the injured area
What is ice?
What SOAP notes stand for
What is subjective, objective, asessement, and plan?
A common injury for swimmers, baseball/softball, and tennis players
What is a rotator cuff injury?
An exercise that someone can do to help strengthen their ankle
What is banded movements (forward, backwards, side to side), tracing the ABC’s, Standing on one leg +variations, etc
A bone that is part of the ankle anatomy
What is the tibfib, malleolus, calcaneus, talus, navicular, cuboid, metatarsals, phalanges
5 materials needed in your sports med kit
What are gloves, athletic tape, prewrap, powerflex, scissors, first aid spray or ointment, noseplugs, gauze, bandaids, concussion light, etc?
The tool used to measure ankle ROM
What is a goniometer?
Patient is a long distance runner complaining of knee pain when they perform the activity. They haven’t taken a rest day in a long time. The likely injury is...
What is patellar tendonitis?
The type of exercise in which you hold a position that maintains the same muscle length ex: a wall sit, plank, sitting in a squat
What is an isometric?
The number of bones in the adult human body
What is 206?
When taping, your tape should overlap
What is halfway?
What RICE protocol stands for
What is rest, ice, compression, elevation?
The overuse of a joint, therefore pinching the surrounding tendons and causing pain and inflammation
What is impingement syndrome?
The type of exercise that uses speed and force of different movements to build muscle power, ex box jumps
What is a plyometric?
The 3 different types of muscle tissue
What is skeletal, cardiac, and smooth?
A negative effect of PED’s
What is messing with natural hormone production, can cause organ damage (liver, kidney, heart), mood and mental health, addiction, etc