48: Approach to Sports Injuries - Yoho

Question 1

is sports medicine a medical specialty

Answer 1

NO

- considered a multidisciplinary field of practice

Question 2

who is considered a competitive athlete?

Answer 2

• collegiate, olympic, and professional sports

- everything else is recreational

Question 3

primary focus of sports medicine

Answer 3

rapid recovery of the injured athlete, which drives many innovations in the field
- Its function is not only curative and rehabilitative, but especially preventive

Question 4

requirements for podiatric sports medicine

Answer 4

Basic knowledge of the unique demands placed on athletes.

Emotional needs must be addressed, as must physiological, biomechanical and metabolic.

Well versed in sport-specific biomechanics and kinetics, injury patterns and velocity, and rehabilitation exercises unique to sports or positions in team sports

Question 5

podiatric sports med goals

Answer 5

Age related injuries and prevention measures must be appreciated as well as general medical factors.

Return athletes to sports competition in better condition than they were before injury.

Imparting to the athlete increased awareness of the mechanism of injury and what can be done to prevent future injury

Question 6

overuse v. chronic static injuries

Answer 6

Chronic but improving or having the ability to improve “overuse” injuries

Chronic but not improving or “chronic static” injuries

Question 7

define overuse syndromes

Answer 7

Refers to a chronic injury resulting from excessive repetition of a common activity or performance of an activity to which an individual is unable to tolerate

Question 8

contributing factors to overuse syndromes

Answer 8

Poor training habits
Biomechanical faults
Individual physical response
to repetitive minor insults

Question 9

Overuse phenomena are likely to result in …

Answer 9

peritendinitis followed by attenuation of the tendon and eventual rupture

Question 10

Acute severe trauma most likely causes …

Answer 10

myotendinous junction disruption for avulsion fracture at soft tissue/bone interface

Question 11

“Rule of Three”

Answer 11

• • When standing equal body weight is distributed on feet.
• • When walking 1 to 1.5 times body weight is distributed on the weight-bearing foot.
• – When running 3 times bodyweight is distributed on the weight-bearing foot.
• • Even minor imbalances are magnified 3 times with running

Question 12

stages of injury

Answer 12

• denial
• anger
• down playing
• depression
• acceptance and commitment to recovery
• fear of re-injury

Question 13

who best to provide support to injured athletes?

Answer 13

the person treating them (you)