Sports Med 1 Flashcards
Spear Tackler’s spine results in:
1) Loss of physiologic cervical lordosis
2) Cervical stenosis
3) Arthritic Changes
What is a stinger?
Symptoms are burning or skocking pain down the arm.
Cause: Brachial Plexus stretch
May get arm numbness or weakness
* C-5 is most common: Biceps, Deltoid, supraspinatus, infraspinatus
Most common level of cervical spine fracture
C5-6 (C4-5 and C6-7) next most common
Most common cause of cervical spine fracture
Leading with the head ( called Axial load(
Most common cause of lower thoracic spine fracture
Fall, axial load increase
Lumbar spine fracture location?
PARS (between the superior and inferior facets)
What muscles make up the rotator cuff
SITS
Weak empty can test?
Supraspinatus injury
Are most shoulder dislocations anterior or posterior?
Anterior- 90%
What is a sublexation?
Partial dislocation where humerus was just barely out of the glenoid fossa
What is a SLAP tear?
Labral tear
Acromiclavicular joint separation cause
Usually a fall on the tip of the shoulder
How many grades of AC joint separation are there?
Grade 1- ligaments are just stretched, tender on AC joint b/c of partial tear to AC ligament
Grade 2- tearing of Acromioclavicular ligament, but coracoclavicular still in tact. Clavicle will rise
Grade 3- all ligaments torn
Clavicle will rise all the way up
Most frequently fractured bone in the body is
clavicle
Criteria for surgery of clavicle fracture?
Must be skeletally mature
Fragmentation of the fracture site is a bad thing
More than 100% displacement
More than 2cm of bone overlap