Case A 15-year-old male football player presented acutely following an injury to their left knee. He described violently kicking the ground, instead of the ball, while attempting to score. This involved a violent contraction of the quadriceps muscle against a fixed tibia. Immediately following the injury he was unable to weight-bear and reported severe pain [...]

Case A fourteen year old male player presented with an insidious onset of pain in his dominant right elbow. He described pain with any weight bearing activities through his elbow and with throw-ins. He had also noticed that he had not been able to fully extend his elbow and that it felt weak. On examination [...]

Case A 16-year-old female football player presented with a one month history of right lateral lower leg pain. This came on with no clear traumatic precipitant, but was associated with an increased training load as she joined a new team. The pain had become progressively worse and was present with all weight-bearing activity. On examination [...]

Case A 35-year-old male semi-professional player presented for an assessment three weeks after an injury to his right lower leg. He describes having had a direct blow to his right lower leg in a tackle and sustaining a fracture. This was managed in the city where his team had travelled to play. He has now [...]

Case A 49-year-old male recreational player presented two weeks after an injury to his left hamstring. He described having lunged forwards with his left leg to contest a ball. He felt a tearing sensation in his proximal hamstring and was unable to continue. He did not develop any significant bruising. Since the injury he had [...]

Case A 37-year-old ex-professional player presented with a six-month history of increasing pain in his dominant right shoulder. He described a deep ache felt within the deltoid region that was exacerbated by movement, especially end-range movements. On examination he had a mild global restriction of shoulder movements with pain towards the extremes of range. Rotation [...]

Case A 21-year-old male professional male player presented four weeks after an innocuous inversion injury to his ankle. While he did not immediately think that this was too severe, he had not been unable to return to play due to ongoing discomfort along the lateral aspect of the ankle. Further questioning revealed that prior to [...]

Case A 45 year old recreational player presented one week after an injury to his left elbow.  He was playing in goal and described blocking a powerful shot with his left hand, forcibly extending his left elbow against resistance.  He reported feeling a tearing sensation and immediate pain in his elbow.  He developed bruising over [...]

Case An 18-year-old female player presents with a six-year history of recurring ‘locking’ episodes in her left knee. Approximately once per month she reported a sense that her knee ‘locked’ and that she had to physically manipulate something ‘back into place’. On examination there was a tender bony prominence around the distal medial thigh. The [...]

Case A 24-year-old female player presented with a two-year history of issues with her right foot. She related these symptoms to an episode when she struck her foot against a door frame. On further questioning the symptoms did not appear to be clearly related to this incident and this event involved only minor trauma. Over [...]