Unit 1
This approach to clinical decision-making combines research, clinician expertise, and patient values.
What is evidence-based practice?
This principle explains how bone and other tissues adapt when progressively loaded during rehab.
What is Wolff’s Law?
This term describes an alignment in which the knees angle inward and touch during stance.
What is genu valgum?
Fatigue, heavy sweating, pale cool skin, and dizziness during exercise are classic signs of this heat illness.
What is heat exhaustion?
This professional on the sports medicine team specializes in on-field assessment and emergency care.
Who is the athletic trainer?
This small, fluid-filled structure reduces friction between moving tissues at bony prominences.
What is a bursa?
A fall onto an outstretched hand often leads to pain in the anatomical snuffbox — a classic sign of injury to this wrist bone.
What is the scaphoid?
A well-conditioned athlete generally needs this many days to become acclimatized to exercising in the heat.
What is about 10–14 days?
This organization is responsible for accrediting professional athletic training programs.
What is CAATE (the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education)?
This chemical mediator is largely responsible for early vasodilation and increased permeability in acute inflammation.
What is histamine?
Overuse of the wrist extensors (common in racquet sports) can lead to pain at the lateral elbow, a condition known as this.
What is lateral epicondylitis?
After the last observed lightning flash or thunder, outdoor practice should not resume until at least this much time has passed.
What is 30 minutes?
Movements like flexion and extension in the sagittal plane occur around this axis.
What is the mediolateral axis?
On the stress–strain curve, this region represents permanent deformation that remains after the load is removed.
What is the plastic region?
Clicking, catching, or deep hip pain during rotation can indicate damage to this ring of fibrocartilage around the acetabulum.
What is the hip labrum?
Persistent intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors or rituals that interfere with normal function are characteristic of this disorder.
What is obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD)?
This ankle motion, occurring primarily at the subtalar joint, turns the sole of the foot inward.
What is inversion?
When documenting an injury evaluation, this component requires the clinician to identify patterns in symptoms, compare bilaterally, and use special tests to confirm or rule out specific conditions.
What is the objective portion of the evaluation?
After a direct blow, marked swelling over the upper end of the ulna is most consistent with this injury.
What is olecranon bursitis?
During practice, a lightning flash is seen and the coach counts 22 seconds before hearing thunder. Using the flash-to-bang method, how far away is the storm and what action is required?
What is the storm is roughly 4 miles away and practice must be suspended immediately?