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Terms for Planes and Locations
Tissue Injury and Fracture Injury basics
Foot, Ankle, and Lower leg Injuries
Knee Injuries
General Anatomy
100
This plane divides the body into upper and lower parts
What is the Transverse Plane
100
An injury to a ligament is known as this
What is a Sprain
100
Except for the Great Toe, each toe has three bones known as
What are the distal, medial and proximal phalanges
100
This keeps the tibia from moving foward on the femur
What is the Anterior Cruciate Ligament
100
"Knee Cap"
What is the Patella
200
This term refers to the front of the body
What is Anterior
200
This is a jagged, irregular open wound created be a noncutting object.
What is a Laceration
200
This muscle attaches to the Achilles tendon at the posterior aspect of the lower leg
What is the Gastrocnemius
200
Name the 4 Quadricep s muscles
What are the Vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, and rectus femoris
200
"Hip Bone"
What is the Iliac crest
300
This term refers to a sturcture being away from the root of the limb
What is Distal
300
This fracture occurs most commonly in children because their bones are still soft and tend to bend and fracture only partway through
What is a Greenstick Fracture
300
An avulsion Fracture to the fifth metatarsal is called
What is a Jones Fracture
300
This is caused when an athlete's patella if forced to the lateral aspect of the leg
What is patellar dislocation
300
Biggest, longest bone in the body
What is the Femur
400
This term refers to an erect stance where the arms are at the sides and the palms are facing foward
What is Anatomical Zero
400
An injury to a muscle of tendon is known as
What is a Strain
400
The goal in taping for turf toe is to prevent this
What is Extension of the Great Toe
400
Name the three Hamstring muscles
What are the biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and the semitendinosus muscles
400
These two bones make up the lower leg
What are the Tibia and the Fibula
500
Close to the body's surface
What is Superficial
500
This injury usually occurs when the head hits against an unyielding object or sufrace; it usually occurs on the opposite side of the initial injury.
What is a Contrecoup injury
500
List two reasons why inversion sprains are more common than eversion sprains
1. The deltoid ligament is stronger than the lateral ligaments 2. The fibula stops the ankle from everting
500
This is often caused by patellar tracking problems
What is Patellar-Femoral Syndrome
500
"Heel Bone"
What is the Calcaneus