Case This 35-year-old female player presented with a short history of back pain and progressive bilateral leg symptoms. She reported first experiencing right-sided buttock discomfort while at the gym two weeks previously. She woke several days later with severe low back and right buttock pain. This evolved over 24 to 48 hours to involve severe [...]

Case A 17-year-old female representative football player presented with lateral ankle pain. She described experiencing a minor inversion injury three months prior to her visit. She was initially diagnosed with a lateral ankle sprain and had three weeks off football training. At this point she was able to return to training but had continued to [...]

Case A 39 year old male ex-professional player presented with a three month history of neck pain and stiffness. There was no clear trauma or other precipitant. The pain was relatively modest but was not improving and was “irritating”. He did not have any history of significant prior neck symptoms. During a 15 year professional [...]

Case A 20 year old elite female player presented with localised medial (right) ankle pain. She reported having sustained an “ankle sprain” while playing football five months prior. She reports having difficulty walking for more than a week after her acute injury. Two months after the injury she had an MRI scan which was reported [...]

Case A 14-year-old male recreational player presented 4 weeks after an injury to his left knee. He described a twisting injury on his planted left leg. At the time of injury, he experienced a popping sensation, was unable to continue due to knee pain and developed a swollen knee within an hour. He then reported [...]

Case A 38-year-old male semi-professional player presented with an acute onset of right foot pain. This started suddenly when he pushed off to change direction. There was not major trauma or twisting mechanism. Further questioning revealed that he had dramatically increased his running volume during a COVID19 related lock-down. For approximately three months prior to [...]

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 [...]