Final Flashcards
Who is ultimately responsible for deciding when an injured athlete is likely to return to full activity?
Team Physician
In the sports medicine team, who is most directly responsible for all phases of health care in an athletic environment, including preventing injuries from occurring, providing initial first aid and injury management, evaluating and diagnosing injuries, and designing and supervising a timely and effective program of rehabilitation that can facilitate the safe and expeditious return of the athlete to activity?
Athletic Trainer
What is the term defined as the failure to use ordinary or reasonable care?
Negligence
In the context of legal concerns, how do you describe malfeasance?
Act of Commission (Doing something you are not legally allowed to do)
What does HOPS stand for?
History, Observation, Palpation, Special test
What is terminology for inflammation of a tendon?
Tendonitis
Explain the difference between grade 1, 2, and 3 sprains?
Grade 1: Stretching of the ligament
Grade 2: Partial tearing of the ligament
Grade 3: Complete tearing of the ligament
Which does the anterior cruciate ligament prevent?
Anterior translation of tibia on femur
A patella usually dislocates in what direction?
Lateral
The quadricep muscles primary job is to?
Knee extension
The hamstring muscles primary job is to?
Knee flexion and hip extension
What forms the periphery of the intervertebral disc?
Annulus Fibrosis
What is the overall function of the rotator cuff?
Stabilize the glenohumeral joint
The action of the supraspinatus is?
Shoulder abduction
A deformity caused by jamming and avulsing the extensor tendon from its insertion is called?
Mallet Finger
What is the most frequently fractured carpal bone?
Scaphoid
What describes the inability of an athlete to remember events after an injury has occurred?
Amnesia
Pain on the anterior medial heel and plantar aspect of the foot that occurs with the first steps in the morning is indicative of what condition?
Plantar Fasciitis
Rotational motion away from the midline describes?
External Rotation
How many vertebrae are present in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar regions of the spine?
Cervical= 7 Thoracic= 12 Lumbar= 5
Most injuries to the medial collateral ligament result from blows to the __________ side of the knee?
Lateral
What structure has the responsibility of cushioning the knee during impact activity?
Menisci
What is an injury that is caused by a direct blow that results in an extremely painful contusion to the iliac crest?
Hip Pointer
What injury involves a mechanical compression of the supraspinatus tendon, the subacromial bursa, and the long head of the bicep’s tendon under the coracoacromial arch?
Subacromial Impingement
Which muscles originate at the medial epicondyle of the humerus
Wrist Flexors
Overuse of the wrist extensors is the mechanism for what injury?
Tennis Elbow/Lateral Epicondylitis
A reflex pain that occurs after an injury to the spleen and radiates to the left shoulder?
Kehr’s Sign
What refers to the presence of blood within the pleural cavity and results from the tearing or puncturing of the lung or pleural tissue?
Hemothorax
Spondylolysis injuries result from what motion?
Hyperextension
What is the function of the intervertebral disc?
Cushon/Shock Absorption
What elbow ligament is commonly injured in throwing athletes?
Ulnar Collateral Ligament
The medial malleolus is part of what bone?
Tibula
The lateral malleolus is part of what bone?
Fibula
A severe blow or repeated blows to the thigh can produce what problem in the muscle?
Myositis Ossificans
If you suspect a person is experiencing heath stroke, what should you do immediately after calling 9-1-1 and getting equipment or telling someone to do so?
Immerse them up to their neck in cold water
How do you form your initial impression of a victim?
Based on what you see as you size up the scene
How deep do you compress the chest during CPR on an adult?
2 -2.4 inches
Where should you place your hands when giving chest compressions to an infant during CPR
One hand on the forehead and 2 fingers on the chest
When preforming chest compressions during CPR, you should give compressions at a rate of at least how many compressions per minute?
100-120
The cycle of chest compressions and ventilations in two-rescuers CPR for an infant is how many compressions to how many ventilations?
15:2
If, during the second analysis, the AED prompts “no shock advised” you should?
Continue with CPR
When providing 2-person rescuer CPR on an infant you should use what technique for compression
Encircling thumbs technique
When using an AED on an adult you should place the pads where?
Upper right side and lower left of the chest
When palpation reveals abdominal rigidity and tenderness at a point between the anterior superior spine of the ilium and the umbilicus, McBurney’s point, is most likely a sign of ________
Appendicitis
List the rotator cuff muscles?
Supraspinatus, Infraspinatus, Teres Minor, and Subscapularis
Who establishes minimum standards for equipment that must be met to ensure its safety?
NOCSAE
What can occur if an athlete who sustained a concussion previously returns to play prior to resolution of the symptoms and then receives another head injury?
Second Impact Syndrome
A condition in which the pleural cavity surrounding the lug becomes filled with air that has entered through an opening in the chest is called __________
Pneumothorax
What occurs due to the loss of blood circulation to the articular head of the femur in children?
Legg-Calve Perthes
Injury to what organ is likely to cause hematuria?
Kidney
