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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Case A 28-year-old recreational player presents with a longstanding history of neck pain. She describes injuring it during a match four years previously. She is unable to recall the exact mechanism but remembers developing acute neck pain that prevented her playing for more than one month. Since this time she describes having experiences relatively constant [...]

Case A 35-year-old male elite player presented with back pain after being hit on his left lower back during a match. He could not play the next game due to intense back pain. While he had tenderness over his lower lumbar spine the remainder of his physical examination was normal. There was a normal range [...]

Case A 15-year-old football player presented with a 3-day history of pain over the mid-tarsal region of the foot, without history of an acute trauma. The pain was not related to walking or running and was only present when kicking the ball. The most significant examination finding was of tenderness to palpation over the tibialis [...]

Case A 13-year-old football player presented with a nine-month history of recurrent groin pain. His symptoms were made worse by running and football training and were improved with rest. At the initial presentation, the patient was diagnosed with left Anterior Inferior Iliac Spine (AIIS) apophysitis based on his clinical examination (no MRI was performed). As [...]

Case A 25-year-old professional football player presented for a pre-signing medical assessment. As part of this assessment he had an x-ray of both ankles, knees and hips. The player had no complaints whatsoever with their right ankle or foot and did not have a history of an injury of the ankle. Findings The lateral x-ray [...]

Case This 17-year-old national representative player presented with an eight-week history of pain in the plantar surface of her great toe. This had come on insidiously. On examination she was found to have pain with hopping and walking on her toes, as well as localised tenderness over the medial sesamoid. Findings An x-ray series of [...]