Medical Terminology
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Feet are Made for Walking
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This is the common name of the area of the body where two bones come together. They give our skeleton movement.
What is a joint?
100
A Lachman's Test will help you diagnose this injury.
What is an ACL tear?
100
This joint of the body is made up of 4 bones: the femur, tibia, patella, and fibula.
What is the Knee?
100
Muscle cramps is a sign/symptom of this this heat illness.
What is Dehydration?
100
This famous tendon of the ankle is named for a Greek God.
What is the Achilles tendon?
200
Dying of tissue due to lack of blood supply.
What is necrosis?
200
This common overuse injury can be developed by repetitive jumping activities leading to pain just below (inferior to) the knee cap.
What is Patellar Tendonitis?
200
This soft tissue structure gives stability to our joint by connecting bone to bone.
What is a ligament?
200
A medical emergency and high chance of death is a result of this heat illness.
What is Heat Stroke?
200
All sprains of the ankle are not the same. This classification of an ankle sprain allows us to define the severity of the injury.
What is a grade?
300
CPR is an acronym for this life saving technique.
What is Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation?
300
This injury to a structure of the knee can be obtained by a forceful rotation of the knee leading to blocking end range of motion and swelling.
What is a Meniscus Tear?
300
This anatomic direction describes which side of the hand our thumb is located on.
What is lateral?
300
Sodium, potassium, and chloride are nutrients found in Gatorade. These nutrients as a group are defined as what.
What is electrolytes?
300
This ankle muscle performs the movement of Dorsiflexion by contracting and moving the foot upward.
What is the Tibialis Anterior?
400
This is a black and blue discoloration of the skin found following a sprained ankle.
What is ecchymosis?
400
An injury to this ligament would result from a forceful valgus stress being placed on the knee.
What is the Medial Collateral Ligament?
400
This quadriceps muscle is unique in that its attachment sites cross 2 joints, the hip and the knee.
What is the rectus femoris?
400
Athletes need to train their bodies for the heat they will be practicing in and competing in. I could take up to 2 weeks to achieve this level of conditioning to the heat.
What is heat acclimation?
400
This long bone of the lower leg is technically classified as a non-weight bearing bone.
What is the fibula?
500
This injury type is characterized by having a lengthy onset of slowly developing symptoms.
What is a chronic injury?
500
This knee injury is suffered to the muscular structure of the knee from forceful contractions and over-striding while sprinting.
What is a hamstring strain?
500
This calf muscle is located deep to (underneath) the gastrocnemius and inserts via the Achilles tendon into the calcaneus.
What is the Soleus muscle?
500
This heat illness identifies itself by having its victim develop clammy skin among other signs and symptoms.
What is heat exhaustion?
500
A complete Achilles tendon rupture can be accurately diagnosed by using this special test.
What is the Thompson Test?