Injury Unit 1 & 2 Flashcards
4 things to do on the assessment of time and purpose
- Onset of injury
- Prior to initial treatment
- During Tx Phase
- Before returning athlete to full activity status
Etioloy
the cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of disease or condition
What should we refer to with a non-injured paired structure?
We should do a bilateral comparison, demonstrate painful movement patterns, and evaluate injured vs noninjured
What are the 7 steps of the evaluation model?
- History
- Observation
- Palpation
- Range of motion tests
- ligamentous tests
- special tests
- neurological tests
What do we look for and ask with history?
- Open-ended questions are better than yes/no questions
- Established “mechanisms of injury” (MOI)
- Determines what structures are involved (micro trauma/macro trauma)
- Onset & duration of symptoms? (insideous)
- Sounds and sensation felt at the time of injury?
- Prior medical history?
- Changes in changes routine/patterns?
- Changes in equipment?
- Previous Tx? Medical referral? Xrays? (congenital)
- Psychological and emotional state?
- Where to go from here? And how?
sign examples
sweating, discoloration, bleeding, redness
what is gait?
walking pattern
What do we look for while inspecting an athlete?
Gait, posture, movement patterns, guarding, gross deformity, swelling, ecchymosis, atrophy, hypertrophy, calluses, bilateral symmetry, and skin
Atrophy
shrunk, decreased in size and strength
hypertrophy
grow in size
what is palpation’s digital pressure?
examining by touch
What do we do and look for with palpation?
digital pressure, visualization, positioning, touch distal to injury, delay, point tenderness, swelling, spasm, deformity, temperature, crepitus, surgical scars, symmetry
Crepitus
crunch, grinding, course rubbing between bone and cartilage or the fractured parts of the bones
Ligamentous Testing
application of a specific stress to test the integrity of isolated ligaments
Laxity
Clinical sign of looseness under ligamentous testing
Instability
symptom of giving out
What do we rule out?
Cardiovascular or respiratory distress, head/neck injury, profuse bleeding, fractures/dislocations, peripheral nerve injuries, and other soft tissue injuries
What is mechanical injury?
A force applied to any body part the results in a harmful disturbance in structure and/or function
How does Mechanical Injuries occur?
Caused by external forces that result in internal tissue damage
How is mechanical injuries determined?
Tissue response to external load is determined by mechanical properties of tissue
5 cardinal signs of the inflammatory system
- redness
- swelling
- heat/warmth
- pain
- loss of function