Case A 21-year-old male professional football player presented with a two-month history of progressive, posterior right ankle pain. This was made worse by sprinting, by striking a ball and with any activities requiring ankle plantarflexion. On examination he was found to have a positive posterior thrust test and an otherwise normal examination. His left ankle [...]

Case A 21-year-old male professional player presented after an acute injury to his right ankle. He described “wrenching” his ankle as he slid in for a slide tackle. He was unable to report the exact mechanism but reports his studs getting caught in the turf and sustaining a violent twisting movement. He experienced intense pain [...]

Case A 16-year-old male football player presented with a four-month history of diffuse anterior knee pain. He described aching after training, difficulty sitting for prolonged periods and pain walking up and down stairs. He did not have any associated symptoms. He had a near normal knee examination but was noted to have poor single leg [...]

Case A 24-year-old male semi-professional player presented with a two-month history of lateral knee pain and swelling. This appeared to have started after an innocuous twisting injury during a training session. He reported that the symptoms fluctuated by that there was a clear relationship to physical activity. He had a bone-patella-bone anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction [...]