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 [...]

Case A 17-year-old male goalkeeper fell onto his outstretched hand (FOOSH) causing a hyperextension force to his left wrist. He was diagnosed with a scaphoid fracture and was managed in a thumb spika cast for 8 weeks with regular follow-up x-rays. He was able to return to play 4 weeks later. Eight months after his [...]

Case A 42-year-old male recreational football player presented with a two-month history of pretibial swelling. He reports having had an ACL-reconstruction (ACLR) 16 years previously. The swelling is variably present, developed after increasing his physical activity and was not associated with any other symptoms. In particular there was no pain, instability or locking. On examination, [...]

Case A 22-year-old female football player presented complaining of left knee pain following an incident landing from a jump. At the time of the injury, she noted some swelling that subsided quickly, but the pain persisted. She had a history of a left knee ACL reconstruction and MCL repair eleven months previously. Prior to her [...]

Case A 34-year-old female recreational football player sustained an acute injury to her left knee during a game. She felt a popping sensation when she planted and pivoted, followed by immediate pain and swelling. She was unable to continue playing. On examination she was found to have a positive Lachman test and a pivot glide. [...]