Principles & Rules
These are the typical stages of healing for connective tissue.
What are the inflammatory, proliferative, and remodeling phases?
This is a common cause of anterior knee pain in growing adolescents characterized by inflammation and a painful, bony bump below the knee.
What is Osgood-Schlatter Disease?
This type of muscle contraction is one that generates force without movement.
What is an isometric contraction?
This is seen during a positive diagnostic maneuver known as the Dix Hallpike when the patient is moved from sitting to supine.
What is nystagmus?
A movement pattern common in swimmers, characterized by shoulder blade winging, abnormal movement, or instability.
What is scapular dyskinesis?
This principle states that the body adapts specifically to the demands placed upon it.
What is the SAID principle?
This is a common shoulder injury affecting the superior aspect of the glenoid where the biceps tendon attaches.
What is a SLAP lesion?
This muscle is the primary internal rotator of the shoulder.
The primary concern when patient reports fever, nausea, night sweats, and chills 5 days post ACL surgery.
What is an infection?
In baseball, this phase of the pitching cycle generates the highest varus torque at the elbow and greatest demand on the UCL.
What is the late cocking/acceleration phase?
This law refers to bone remodeling based on the stressors applied.
What is Wolff's law?
This ligament is the most commonly injured ligament in sports.
What is the ATFL?
The ACL receives mechanical support from this muscle group through its role in controlling anterior tibial translation.
What are the hamstrings?
This concern should be ruled out in anyone with unexpected weight changes.
The NFL's position with the highest-documented rate of concussion.
What is the linebacker?
What rules were designed to determine the need for an x-ray, ultimately to reduce unnecessary imaging for ankle injuries?
What are the Ottowa Ankle Rules?
This term refers to a traction apophysitis at the medial epicondlye growth plate.
What is Little Leaguer's Elbow?
This exercise has been shown to provide immense injury protection benefit to lower extremity injuries in soccer athletes (especially of the adductors)?
What is the Copenhagen exercise?
A runner presents with deep, achy groin pain that worsens with weight bearing and is unrelated to hip ROM. Plain films are negative. This diagnosis must be ruled out first.
What is a femoral neck stress fracture?
This widely-used injury prevention program for soccer players has been shown to reduce ACL injuries by up to 50% in female soccer players.
What is the FIFA 11+?
This physics principle applies to biomechancs: force applied over time that changes the motion or momentum.
Presents with pain, inflammation, and restriction along the posterior ankle. Common in ballet dancers and soccer players due to an accessory bone posterior to the talus.
What is Os Trigonum syndrome?
The amount of muscles which attach to the scapula.
What is 17?
Unilateral leg weakness, saddle anesthesia, and bowel or bladder dysfunction together constitute a red flag for this diagonosis.
What is cauda equina syndrome?
In sprinting biomechanics, this phase produces the highest hamstring strain injury risk due to peak eccentric load.
What is late swing/terminal swing?