Month: February 2020

Spinous process non-union

27 February 2020 2 comments

Case A 28-year-old recreational player presents with a longstanding history of neck pain. She describes injuring it during a match four years previously. She is unable to recall the exact mechanism but remembers developing acute neck pain that prevented her playing for more than one month. Since this time she describes having experiences relatively constant [...]

$Transverse process fracture$

Transverse process fracture

20 February 2020 2 comments

Case A 35-year-old male elite player presented with back pain after being hit on his left lower back during a match. He could not play the next game due to intense back pain. While he had tenderness over his lower lumbar spine the remainder of his physical examination was normal. There was a normal range [...]

The MLG-R muscle injury classification for hamstrings

19 February 2020 3 comments

Muscle injuries are very common in sport. Over the past decade several classification and grading systems for muscle injuries have been published. This FastFact highlights the MLG-R system that has been developed in collaboration with the FC Barcelona medical department1. A good classification system is necessary, which allows to have reliable epidemiological data, which are [...]

Tibialis anterior bursitis

13 February 2020 1 comment

Case A 15-year-old football player presented with a 3-day history of pain over the mid-tarsal region of the foot, without history of an acute trauma. The pain was not related to walking or running and was only present when kicking the ball. The most significant examination finding was of tenderness to palpation over the tibialis [...]

Triradiate cartilage injury

06 February 2020 1 comment

Case A 13-year-old football player presented with a nine-month history of recurrent groin pain. His symptoms were made worse by running and football training and were improved with rest. At the initial presentation, the patient was diagnosed with left Anterior Inferior Iliac Spine (AIIS) apophysitis based on his clinical examination (no MRI was performed). As [...]

Optimising the late-stage rehabilitation and return-to-sport training and testing process after ACL reconstruction

05 February 2020 5 comments

Most football players who rupture their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) undergo ACL reconstruction (ACLR) to restore knee stability and allow for return to play. However, outcomes after ACLR are often not ideal, in particular, there appears a high risk of re-injury while many players do not return to previous performance levels. This FastFact presents the [...]

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