LE: Examination and Clinical Diagnosis

Exam 1

What is the difference between sports medicine and regular medicine?

Time

What is the sports medicine team?

• Who is on the sports medicine team?

• What are their roles?

• What is the AT role?

Anybody who would need to work on/with the athlete

AT, Team Physician, Psychologist, etc.

The AT role is to be the link between all sports medicine team.

ER Evaluations vs. MD Evaluations vs. Our Evaluations

ER:

MD:

AT:

SOAP Notes

Subjective - symptoms

Objective - signs

Assessment - determination of injury

Plan - keep the athlete motivated and engaged

Long Bone

Epiphysis - end of the long bone

Diaphysis - shaft of the long bone

Metaphysis - flare of the bone

Physis - growth plate

Periosteum - covering of the bone

Traction Epiphysis

Where a tendon applies force (knee)

Pressure Epiphysis

At the end of long bones

Open Fracture

A fracture that also has any break in the skin

Closed Fracture

A fracture where the skin does not have a break

What are the different types of fractures? (12)

Transverse - straight through the bone

Greenstick - incomplete fracture

Oblique - diagonally across the bone

Spiral - fracture line wraps around the bone

Spiral Oblique - fracture line is at an oblique angle and wraps around the shaft of the bone

Impacted/Compound - jamming and shattering at the fracture site

Comminuted - several separate bone fragments

Line/Stress - incomplete fracture involving a crack in the bone without displacement

Avulsion - an attached ligament or tendon pulls away a bone fragment