Off-the-Field Eval

What information should be included in the history portion of an eval?

• MOI

• Pain Characteristics

• Injury Location

• Acute or Chronic

The following questions could be used to find out information about what? "How did it happen? When did it happen?"

• MOI

• Injury Location

• Pain Characteristics

• Joint Responses

The question "Does the pain change at different times?" gives us information about what?

• MOI

• Injury Location

• Pain Characteristics

• Joint Responses

When obtaining a history, the AT should:

• Be calm and reassuring

• Interpret what the athlete is telling them

• Wait until the athlete has had time to process their injury to start getting a history of what happened

• Ask open-ended question

When completing the observation portion of the evaluation, the AT is asking themselves which of the following questions?

• Is there obvious deformity?

• Did they hear or feel anything when it happened?

• Does the athlete's face indicate that they're in pain?

• Is there swelling?

True or False: When doing the palpation portion of the eval, an AT only needs to palpate bilaterally when they suspect a fracture.

• True

• False

True or False: When palpating, the AT should start away from the injured area and work towards it.

• True

• False

This ROM is performed completely by the person completing the evaluation.

• AROM

• RROM

• PROM

This ROM is performed completely by the athlete.

• AROM

• PROM

• RROM

RROM is:

• Performed completely by the athlete

• Performed completely by the evaluator

• Performed with the AT providing resistance as the athlete goes through the ROM

• None of the above