Ankle Injuries Review

Which Fractures can be associated with an Inversion Ankle Sprain? Choose ALL that are correct

• Avulsed Lateral Maleolus

• Avulsed Medial Maleolus

• Lateral Maleolus Compression Fracture

• Medial Maleolus Compression Fracture

• Jones Fracture

Which Fractures can be associated with an Eversion Ankle Sprain? Choose ALL that are correct

• Avulsed Lateral Maleolus

• Avulsed Medial Maleolus

• Lateral Maleolus Compression Fracture

• Medial Maleolus Compression Fracture

• Jones Fracture

Which Fractures can be associated with a Syndesmosis Ankle Sprain? Choose ALL that are correct

• Avulsed Lateral Maleolus

• Avulsed Medial Maleolus

• Lateral Maleolus Compression Fracture

• Medial Maleolus Compression Fracture

• Jones Fracture

An athlete comes in complaining of pain in their achilles tendon.  They do not recall any specific injury, but it's been slowly building up and getting more sore.  You notice swelling  and upon testing the strenght appears the same as the uninjured achilles.  What do you believe the injury to be

• Strain

• Tenosynovitis

• Tendonitis

• Tendinosis

• Rupture

You take the field with Fitz with what appears to be an ankle injury.  The athlete tries to get up before you get there and he stumbles back down to the ground.   He is mad because he thinks someone stepped onto his achilles, but there was no one behind him.  Fitz looks at the achilles and you notice where his sock is "dipping" into the achilles instead of being tight on the other leg.  What injury to  you think this could be?

• Strain

• Tenosynovitis

• Tendonitis

• Tendinosis

• Rupture

An athlete comes in complaining of pain in their achilles tendon.  They tell you that they got landed into while they were running and felt the pain immediately after.  They tell  you that they have had no pain prior.  You notice swelling  and upon testing the strength in the injured achilles is less than the uninjured achilles.  What do you believe the injury to be

• Strain

• Tenosynovitis

• Tendonitis

• Tendinosis

• Rupture

An athlete comes in complaining of pain in their achilles tendon.  They do not recall any specific injury, but it's been slowly building up and getting more sore as well as they have been doing more jumping drills in practice and outside training.  You notice swelling  and upon testing the strength in the injured achilles is less than the uninjured achilles.  What do you believe the injury to be

• Strain

• Tenosynovitis

• Tendonitis

• Tendinosis

• Rupture

An athlete comes in complaining of pain in their achilles tendon as well as a definite weakness in their running and jumping.  They tell you that this has been going on now for over a year and they only thing they've been doing is icing and advil.  They avoid doing any heavy lifts.   You don't notice any significant swelling in the achilles, but you do notice some definite atrophy (smaller) achilles and calf and upon testing the strength in the injured achilles is definitely less than the uninjured achilles.  What do you believe the injury to be

• Strain

• Tenosynovitis

• Tendonitis

• Tendinosis

• Rupture

What was the name of the simple test ATs use to determin if an achilles has been ruptured?

What Anatomical Landmark is fractured with a Jones Fracture