Not Just Muscles and Bones
Nerves
Child Injuries
Injuries
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100
This is a trauma-induced alteration in mental status that may or may not include a loss of consciousness
What is a concussion?
100

Paresthesias of the 4th and 5th fingers, pain near the hypothenar eminence, and weakness of finger abduction are cause when this nerve is injured.

What is the ulnar nerve?

100

This is an incomplete long bone fracture seen in children due to increased bone elasticity where only one cortex of the bone actually fractures.

What is a greenstick fracture? Bonus (or penalty). For 50 +/-, what else contributes to the development of pediatric greenstick fractures?

100

This diagnosis is characterized by lateral shoulder pain with throwing activities. Widening of the proximal humeral physis on xray confirms it.

What is little leaguer’s shoulder (proximal humeral epiphysitis)?

100

Name a commonly prescribed antibiotic that can cause spontaneous rupture of the tendons, such as the achilles, in active people.

What is Ciprofloxacin? (quinolones)

200
Name the fat soluble vitamins.
What are vitamins A, D, E and K?
200

Make sure you test this nerve when evaluating humeral shaft fractures.

What is the radial nerve? Does wrist and elbow extension, sensation radial side of dorsum of hand.

200

This is the most common cause of back pain in adolescents (~50%)

What is spondylolysis?

200

PICTURE DAILY DOUBLE!!!

What are ear plugs? This is surfer's ear or external auditory exostoses. Exostoses complications include infections, pain, conductive hearing loss

200
You may want to order this if a patient comes in with foot pain after stepping on a sting ray.
What is an x-ray?
300
These three components make up the Female Athletic Triad.
What are disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis?
300

Name a neural traction tests that are useful to help diagnose a lower extremity radiculitis. DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!! Name two tests...

What are the Slump Test and/or Straight Leg Raise?

300

DAILY DOUBLE!!! Kid's style...

What is Sever's Disease?

300

What do you tell the head coach when he asks what has been injured with a high ankle sprain, and if the player will return immediately to the game?

What is a syndesmotic injury (or AITFL) and NO the player will not return to the game.

300
A football player spear tackles another player and is motionless on the ground. What is your first and initial assessment of the player on the ground?
What is the airway?
400
A star cross country runner who won the easter regional finals a month ago present with fatigue, headache and arthralgia and myalgia. He thinks he had a rash and you think he has...
What is Lyme Disease?
400

A football player is struck on the lateral aspect of the knee with a resultant foot drop because of injury to this nerve.

What is the Common Peroneal/Fibular nerve?

400
You are examining an adolescent football player’s MCL and note pain and laxity of the ligament with a good endpoint with valgus stress. A parent ask you for a diagnosis and you say? (include treatment)
What is a Grade II MCL sprain? Treatment includes relative rest, stability initially (hinge knee brace), and time.
400

What is the name of of this injury when the finger is forced into extension while the DIP is actively flexed creating an avulsion of the flexor digitorum profundus.

What is a Jersey Finger?

400

What is an injury by way of hyperextension to the 1st metatarsophalangeal joint causing damage to the plantar plate, joint capsule and 1st MTP joint ligaments.

What is turf toe?

500
Name a potential serious complication of exertional rhabdomyolysis. All or nothing BONUS: Get extra points for naming 2 more, each for an extra 100. If not correct, they get subtracted from your score....
What is compartment syndrome, or leaked intracellular K+ can trigger caridac arrhythmias, or metabolic acidosis or myoglobinuric renal failure?
500

These are the two tests for lunotriquetral instability in the wrist.

What are the Reagan Test and Shuck Test. 200 point BONUS! Describe them :-)

500
This is the most commonly fractured bone in the pediatric population.
What is the clavicle?
500
This is the definition of "Tennis Leg".
What is an injury to the medial head of gastrocnemius near the musculotendinous junction?
500

How many carpal bones are in the wrist, and what are the locations and names.

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