Week 1 Overuse injuries

Question 1

What is an overuse injury?

Question 2

What are some of the predisposing factors of overuse injury? What are some examples of each factors

Question 3

Why are running related injuries so common?

Question 3

Why are running related injuries so common?

Question 4

Explain the histological changes that occur in tendinopathy and when they predominantly noccur

Question 5

What are the stages of tendinopathy

Answer 5

1. Reactive tendon
2. tendon dysrepair
3. Tendon degeneration

Question 6

Explain how athletes must treat tendon degeneration.

Question 7

How might you investigate a potential tendinopathy? What imaging technique would you use?

Question 8

What are some of the subjective symptoms of tendinopathy in each stage?

Question 9

What are some of the objective symptoms of tendinopathy in each stage?

Question 10

How should we manage a tendinopathy? What affects do they have?

Question 11

What’s the Silbernagel Protocol for archilles tendons?

Question 12

What is isometric exercise mainly useful for in patellar tendinopathy?

Question 13

What are the problems of isometric exercise in tendinopathies? When should this type of exercise be introduced during rehabilitation?

Question 14

What is plyometric exercise mainly useful for in tendinopathy? When should we introduce this during rehabilitation?

Question 15

What are some examples of final rehabilitation before returning to run?

Question 16

If the patients injury was an insertional tendionopathy, what might you avoid doing in your rehabilitation?

Question 17

Name some common Tendinopathies

Question 18

What is a Stress Fracture?

Question 19

What is the relationship between the number of bone cycles until failure and load on the bone? What kind of athlete schedule might cause high stress and low cycles to failure?

Question 20

What are some of the histological changes that occur in stress fractures?

Question 21

What are some of the signs and symptoms of a stress fracture?

Question 22

What are some objective signs of a stress fracture and how do we assess these in a clinical situations (imaging techniques as well)?

Question 23

What are some of the common bones that are susceptible for stress fractures? What kind of sports could we most commonly see these fractures in?

Question 24

What might be important for building healthy bones at early ages and when older? Why?