Case This 31-year-old male recreational player presented following two discrete injuries to his knee. This first injury involved a twisting mechanism. This was associated with a popping sensation, near immediate swelling and an inability to play on. He was diagnosed with a medial collateral ligament injury and was able to return to football several months [...]

Case This 31-year-old professional female player presented following an acute injury to her right ankle. The injury occurred in a tackle. She was uncertain about the exact mechanism but remembers a heavy blow to her ankle followed by immediate medial ankle pain and an inability to continue. On examination she is unable to weight-bear, had [...]

Case A 26-year-old male professional football player presented with severe left arm pain. He was initially aware of some neck discomfort immediately following a match. Over the subsequent 48 hours he then developed severe left arm pain. On examination the player appeared distressed. He had a global restriction in cervical movements and a positive Spurling’s [...]

Case A 16-year-old club player presented approximately two weeks after an inversion injury to his right foot, sustained during a slide tackle. He was able to limp off the field but was unable to continue. Over the next few days he developed progressive weakness in his right foot. On examination he was unable to dorsiflex [...]

Case This 13-year-old male player presented with a history of recurring ankle pain. This has become increasingly worse over a 3-4 month period. At the time of his assessment, he was found to have pronounced stiffness of his left sub-talar joint. Findings There is elongated of the anterior process of the calcaneus (known as the [...]

Case A 27-year-old male professional player presented with a 4-month history of neck pain and stiffness. He could not recall a clear precipitant for these symptoms. On examination he was found to have a global, mild restriction in all cervical movements. He had no focal neurological signs and no other clear abnormalities. Findings X-ray images [...]

Case A 28-year-old male professional player presented complaining of central low back pain. This has developed over a period of four months. There was no significant referral of pain. His symptoms appeared related to activity and seemed to be getting worse over time. He described having had multiple short-lived bouts of pain over his lifetime [...]

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 [...]