Month: March 2020

Morel-Lavallée lesion of the knee

26 March 2020 6 comments

Case A 24-year-old female player presents after an innocuous twisting injury to her left knee. This was sustained whilst attempting a slide tackle. She reports that her knee became swollen (over a few hours) and was painful. She did attempt to play the following day, albeit with pain. On examination there was localised swelling about [...]

Discoid meniscus

19 March 2020 3 comments

Case An eleven-year-old female player presented complaining of recurring clunking in her left knee. This had been present for six months but had become worse in the month prior to her presentation. During this time, she had also developed some localised lateral knee pain and her parents had noticed that her knee appeared swollen. On [...]

Sport-related concussion (SRC) may take longer to recover than previously thought

18 March 2020 3 comments

It is often said that the majority of cases of SRC recover predictably within 7 to 10 days of injury. This prospective cohort study, from one of our FIFA Medical Centres of Excellence and published in this month’s edition of the CJSM, challenges this commonly held belief1. This week’s FastFact highlights a prospective cohort study [...]

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Proximal humerus fracture

12 March 2020 3 comments

Case A 16-year-old male football player fell awkwardly from a jump, landing on his right arm and shoulder. He experienced immediate pain in his arm and shoulder and was not able to continue. When he was seen in clinic later that day he was in obvious distress, his shoulder appeared swollen and there was a [...]

Lytic Spondylolisthesis

05 March 2020 1 comment

Case A 28-year-old female player presents with a six-month history of lumbar pain. She is unable to identify a specific incident that started her problem. She described a low-level ache that was only present during physical activity, and for a short period afterwards. On examination there was some tenderness over the lumbar spine in the [...]

Assessing variation in shoe-surface traction over one season of elite football

04 March 2020 3 comments

Foot fixation - or the feeling that studs are trapped on the grass during a rotational movement - is a mechanism commonly associated with injury to the anterior cruciate ligament in football. Despite this, little information exists regarding the magnitude of traction forces at the shoe-surface interface. This FastFact investigates how traction (grip) between the [...]

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