This is the branch of medicine concerned with physical fitness and the prevention and treatment of sports-related injuries.
What is Sports Medicine?
This limb, ranging from the shoulder to the fingertips, is commonly referred to as "the arm."
What is the upper extremity?
This is the scientific word for the leg.
Out of these three options, this is the worst type of injury and requires the most serious medical attention - pulling a muscle, spraining a muscle, or tearing a muscle.
What is tearing a muscle?
Demonstrate or describe flexion of the arm at the elbow.
Pull hand to shoulder and make a muscle with biceps!
There are this many bones in the average human body.
What is 206?
This is the largest bone of the upper extremity, also known as the "funny bone."
What is the humerus?
This is the longest bone of the human body lies between the hip and the knee.
What is the femur?
This injury is very common in most sports and happened to athletes like Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Derrick Rose and Ray Lewis.
What is an ACL injury?
Demonstrate or describe extension of the leg at the knee.
Put the leg out straight at the knee joint.
This tissue made of fibers allows us to move our skeleton.
What are skeletal muscles?
This muscle has "two heads" - it says it in the name!
What is the biceps?
These muscles run behind the thighs and help us extend our legs.
What are the hamstrings?
The ACL, located in the knee, stands for this ligament.
What is the Anterior Cruciate Ligament?
Demonstrate or describe abduction of the arm.
This tissue connects muscles to bones to control our movement.
What are tendons?
These two bones of the forearm connect to the humerus at the elbow.
What are the radius and the ulna?
The patella, a bone in the lower extremity, is more commonly known as this.
What is the kneecap?
Tennis elbow, an injury of the elbow, involves pain and swelling on this side of the elbow.
What is the lateral side? (aka the lateral epicondyle)
Demonstrate or describe adduction of the fingers.
Put all your fingers together, closest to the midline of the hand (which is the middle finger!)
This tissue connects bones to other bones to hold our skeleton together.
What are ligaments?
This shoulder muscle is the spot where you'll get your COVID-19 vaccine, once you're old enough!
What is the deltoid?
This muscle group covers our sits bones and allows us to control our hip movement.
What are the glutes?
A patient presents to your clinic with with a torn ACL. You recommend this treatment method.
What is reconstruction surgery?
Demonstrate or describe the difference between pronation and supination.
Pronation is putting your hands down on the table
Supination is putting your hands up like you're holding a bowl of soup.