The possible long-term complications if problems with anterior compartment syndrome are left untreated.
What is a possible hematoma?
100
How to prevent ankle injuries.
What is wearing high top sneakers, address weakness in joint complex, and increasing range in motion?
200
The Achilles tendon attaches these muscles to this bone.
What are the gastrocnemius and the soleus to the calcaneus?
200
The most common type of ankle sprain.
What is an inversion sprain?
200
This condition involved the swelling of muscles inside lower leg compartments.
What is compartment syndrome?
200
The types of changes an athlete may need to make to alleviate and prevent further episodes of shin splints.
What is changing the athlete's routine and possible wearing insoles?
300
The technical name of the ankle joint.
What is the talocrural joint?
300
The compartment of the lower leg that presents most problems of fluid accumulation.
What is the anterior compartment?
300
The signs, symptoms and treatment of Achilles tendinitis.
What is swelling, pain, and tenderness? Apply ice, compression, and a heel pad or tape.
300
Common fracture site in the lower leg.
What is the distal tibia and fibula?
300
Percentage of body weight supported by the fibula.
What is 2%?
400
List the 7 tarsal bones.
What is the calcaneus, the cuboid, cuneiform (medial, intermediate, lateral), talus, and navicular?
400
List the neuromuscular supply of the three compartments.
What is the deep peroneal nerve and artery, superficial peroneal nerve and artery, tibial nerve and artery?
400
The more severe ankle sprain (inversion/eversion)and why.
What is eversion because there is one ligament involved and it is the largest ligament of the ankle?
400
The most common site of swelling in compartment syndrome.
What is the anterior compartment?
400
The signs and symptoms of a fracture of the lower leg.
What is swelling/deformity at the site of injury, possible broken bone end projecting through the skin, athlete may not be able to bear weight on leg?
500
List the ligaments of the ankle.
What is the anterior/posterior talofibular ligament, deltoid ligament, calcaneonavicular ligament, calcaneal fibular ligament, lateral talocalcaneal ligament?
500
List the three muscular compartments and their movements.
What is the anterior (dorsiflexors and extensors), lateral (evertors), superficial/deep posterior (plantarfexors/invertors).
500
A condition in which an athlete experiences repeated ankle sprains.
What is chronic ankle instability?
500
The syndrome is a common disorder of the lower leg, usually known as "shin splints".
What is Tibial Stress Syndrome?
500
A soccer player gets kicked very hard on his shin guard and it breaks the shin guard resulting in blunt trauma to his lower leg. After the match, you apply ice to the lateral leg and tell him to ice and elevate the leg for 20 minutes every hour. Later that evening he complains of numbness and tingling in his foot and an inability to quickly dorsiflex his foot. What should you tell him at this point?