Stress Fractures
This bone is in the knee and when fractured horizontally runners can lose knee extension.
What is the patella?
This is the amount to increase per week to avoid injuries.
What is 10 percent?
This condition is painful with first steps in the AM
What is plantar fasciitis?
This is the most common motion of the hip and knee seen in patellofemoral syndrome.
What is Excessive hip adduction?
This test may be used to evaluate runners with trabecular stress fractures, and it is normally used to look for low bone density in the elderly.
What is a DEXA Scan?
This bone can be bipartite or fractured on Xray of the foot and may be tricky to heal.
What is the sesamoid bone?
This machine allows athletes to train at loads less than their Body Weight.
What is the Alter G treadmill?
This is a type of gait where this is a narrow base and can cause ankle over-pronation.
What is scissor gait.
This type of therapeutic exercise helps tendinosis patients rehab their tendons by lengthening the muscle while contracting it.
What is eccentric exercises?
These are used to define expectations between runners and team physicians and PT and athletic training staff.
What is: Return to Run Contract
While the tension side of this stress fracture of the hip is high risk the compression side may be treated non operatively.
What is the femoral neck stress fracture?
When unweighted, this is the ability to train at speeds faster than an athlete would be able to on land.
What is overspeed training?
This is common motion of the hip seen in runners with IT band syndrome.
What is hip drop or Trendelenberg gait?
This is the difference between rehab for midsubstance and insertional Achilles tendinitis.
What full heel drop motion versus partial motion?
These are the components of the athletic triad.
What is amenorrhea, low bone density, and low energy availability.
The diaphyseal anterior portion of this lower leg bone is considered higher risk due to forces in running.
What is the tibia?
These are the two primary variables to adjust when creating a return to running program.
What are volume and intensity?
This is a running motion that sends the vector of force into the anterior tibia causing shin splints and stress fractures.
What is -Overstriding with heel striking.
This change decreases the rate of injuries such as Medial tibial stress syndrome and Iliotibial band syndrome.
What is increasing your running cadence?
This is the newer name for the syndrome of relative energy deficiency in athletes that may lead to numerous neuro-horomonal abnormalities including osteopenia.
What is RED-S?
Both humans and greyhounds have similar blood supply to this bone of the foot which can lead to stress fractures in its midportion in runners.
What is the navicular?
The most sensitive test for bone stress injuries, but has some radiation and maybe difficult to give severity.
What is NM bone scan?
This is a condition that leads to exhaustion and injuries.
What is overtraining syndrome.
Pain free & non-tender to palpation.
What are requirements to begin rehab on a stress fracture?
This is the only version of prescription estrogen that builds stronger bones.
What is transdermal estrogen.