Sport Related Injuries Flashcards
Prevention: General Principles
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- Stretch prior to activity: shouldn’t hurt
- Warm up prior to activity: break a sweat
- Make sure you’re in good enough shape to participate
- Ease back into activity
- Don’t play through the pain
What are the kinds of injuries that can happen to the shoulder?
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Overuse: fatigued tendons and muscles
Subacute: fatigued tendons and muscles that now slowly begin to tear/wear out: pain is increasing
Acute: Fell, threw too hard, swung to hard, now your shoulder hurts
Describe overuse injuries? 1
Subacute? 2
Acute? 4
Overuse:
1. fatigued tendons and muscles
Subacute:
- fatigued tendons and muscles that now slowly begin to tear/wear out:
- pain is increasing
Acute:
- Fell,
- threw too hard,
- swung to hard,
- now your shoulder hurts
Overuse Injuries of the shoulder are? 2
- Tendonitis
2. Tendonopathy: sick tendon
Describe tendonitis? 3
Tendinopathy? 2
Tendonitis:
- irritation/inflammation of a tendon
- Pain down the side of the shoulder with overhead and behind the back activity
- Nighttime pain
Tendonopathy: “sick” tendon
- Similar pain complaints
- Pain may have been evident for a longer period of time
Sports injury shoulder tx? 5
Treatment
- Make sure that’s all it is: xrays and MRI
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories
- Ice
- Physical Therapy
- Corticosteroid injection
Describe subacute injury of the shoulder.
- Progression of what?
- Describe the pain?
- Progression of an overuse injury
2. Had occasional pain before, now it hurts worse and more frequently
Subacute shoulder injury
- Dx? 2
- Tx if unremarkable? 4
- Xrays for the bones
- MRI for the soft tissues
- If unremarkable
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories
- Ice
- Physical Therapy
- +/- Corticosteroid injection
Acute shoulder injury dx? 2
tx?
- Xray and MRI
2. Treatment depends on the findings
Shoulder:
In general the work up for overuse, subacute, and acute shoulder pain is the same
1. What are a must?
- MRI Indications? 3
Know what you are dealing with before treating it
- Radiographs
- Drop arm sign,
- external rotation lag sign,
- dislocation
Concerning injuries: Shoulder injuries that you should be more worried about? 2
- Pain does not improve with conservative management
- Positive findings on xray
- Positive findings on MRI (found something wrong)
Concerning injuries: Shoulder
- Positive findings on xray? 2
- Positive findings on MRI (found something wrong)? 3
- Fracture
- Arthritis
- Rotator cuff tear
- Labral tear
- Biceps tendon tear
Shoulder
Whats next if conservative tx doesn’t work? 3
- Shoulder arthroscopy
- “Clean up the shoulder”
- Repair torn tendons
Recovery Worst case scenario is cuff repair 1. Healing phase is how long? 2. When does it start? 3. Time in full time sling and part time sling? 4. Rehab? 5. Strengthening? 6. Typically takes how long?
- 6 weeks: Healing phase
- Typically start therapy at 3 weeks
- Full time sling 3 weeks/part time 3 weeks
- 6 weeks: Rehab
- 6 weeks: Strengthening
- Typically 3-4 months…start resuming previous activities…SLOWLY
- What kind of joint is the knee?
2. There are 3 seperate compartments: What are they?
- A diarthroidal joint: a hinge joint
- 3 separate comparments
- Patellofemoral
- Medial
- Lateral