An athlete steps backwards into a hole and reports thinking someone threw a rock at their heel and felt a pop. They could not bear weight on their foot and there was delayed pain. There is an obvious deformity and swelling is immediately present. What is a possible diagnosis that you suspect based on what the athlete has told you?

The concept of ‘tragedy of commons’ shows that:

What part of the load-deformation curve describes the part in where the slack is being taken up in the initial phase of deformation?

A middle school baseball player cuts his hand on the barbed wire when trying to catch a ball. What type of wound is this – that is characterized as a smooth cut with smooth edges caused by a sharp object?

When discussing possible problems of a basketball player who was stepped on – and felt his toe move in and out of place, what is it called when there is only a partial dissociation of a joint or a dissociation that is reduced without intervention?

You run onto the field to examine a footbally player who fell down during a play and cannot get up. As you get there, you start thinking of your assessment play. You know that Active range of motion (AROM) should be completed – Unless you suspect that these of the following is present?

A linebacker comes to you on the sidelines after a play. He is c/o burning, stinging, and weakness in the shoulder. You hold him out for the next series of plays. Within 10 minutes, he is feeling ok and sensations are back to normal.  You suspect that he had this issue – and following nerve injury, which is the least serious.

How many emergency actions plans should each institution have?

When assessing a patient’s foot , you explain that when testing passive ROM at the end range, you are testing this soft tissue structure is non-contractile

What is the primary goal of NIV?