Case A 38-year-old, male professional football player presents with pain in the posterior aspect of his right hip. He reported developing these symptoms approximately 24 hours after a normal gym session. He did not experience an acute onset of symptoms while training and couldn’t identify any other possible precipitant. The pain prevented him from training [...]

Case A 22-year-old male football player presented one year after an injury to his groin. He described injuring himself while lunging into a heavy tackle. He complained of ongoing pain in his medial thigh, particularly during sporting activities. He had been unable to return to competition. On examination he was found to have pain during [...]

Case A 16-year-old male academy player was tackled during a game and sustained a direct blow to the anterior aspect of their left knee. At the time, there was minor discomfort and minimal swelling. This settled completely within 48 hours with rest and icing and the player completed a game 10 days later with no [...]

Case A 29-year-old male professional football player injured his left knee after sustaining a valgus stress to his flexed knee during a competitive match. Despite this injury he was able to complete the game. He presented the following day with localised medial knee pain. He was found to have tenderness on the medial side of [...]

Case This 50-year-old, right hand dominant, recreational player presented with a three month history of ulnar-sided pain in her left wrist. She described an insidious onset of pain and symptoms that are worse with weight bearing through her arms and with movements involving rotation. On examination she had pain with end range wrist extension and [...]

Case A 25-year-old male player presented acutely after a fall onto his right shoulder. He described falling directly on to the shoulder, experiencing a cracking sensation and being unable to move the entire upper right extremity due to pain. At the time of his presentation he was found to have a global restriction of his [...]

Case This 24-year-old professional player presents with progressive left hip pain and stiffness. This had been present for approximately six months. He has similar, but less significant, pain in his right hip. On examination, he was found to have pain with hip flexion beyond 90 degrees, reduced internal rotation (less than 10 degrees bilaterally) and [...]

Case This 20-year-old, female U-20 national team player presented with a three-month history of left sided low back pain. This was not associated with any trauma and came on insidiously. The pain was made worse by activity and improved by rest. On examination, she had tenderness over the lower lumbar spine in the midline and [...]

Case This 24-year-old male futsal player presents following an injury to his left foot. He describes forcibly plantarflexing his foot as he contested for a ball. He experienced immediate pain and had to be removed from the field. Following the injury, he developed generalised swelling of his foot. When he presented for review five days [...]

Case A 42 year old female ex-professional player presented with a four month history of recurring swelling, instability and mechanical symptoms in her right knee. This was on a background of more longstanding patellofemoral symptoms. On examination she was found to have a loss of terminal knee flexion as well as a moderate effusion. Findings [...]