Case A 13-year-old player presents after an innocuous twisting injury of his knee. He describes experiencing a popping sensation as he changed direction followed by severe pain, immediate swelling and an inability to weight bear. The pain was bad enough to take him to the hospital emergency department. On examination there was an effusion, tenderness [...]

Case A 35-year-old male player presents with an acute onset of low back pain after lifting some luggage. He experienced an acute onset of lumbar-region pain with no significant referral. He describes a history of “sciatica” affecting his right leg three years before. This resolved spontaneously over three months. On examination there was a loss [...]

Case A 23-year-old recreational player presented following an acute injury to his left knee. He described sustaining a significant valgus stress to his knee. There was immediate pain, rapid swelling and a marked sense of instability. On examination he was found to have gross laxity with a valgus stress (both in flexion and in extension) [...]

Case A 63-year-old female football coach presents after a fall down two steps at training. She described landing heavily on her flexed left knee.  She reports experiencing immediate pain and swelling. On examination she was noted to have a gross effusion, localised tenderness about the patella and a limitation of knee flexion to 60 degrees. [...]

Case This 32 year old recreational player presented with right sided chest wall pain. He thought that this might have been related to training in the gym however he could not recall any definitive precipitant. The pain was quite diffuse and was felt from the axilla to the anterior chest wall.  The pain was mechanical [...]

Case A 23-year-old male player presented after a collision with an opponent. He describes experiencing immediate pain as his hand was caught in his opponent’s shirt. He was however able to play a further 30 minutes without much restriction. After the game, he was noted to have localised tenderness over his fourth metacarpal as well [...]

Case A 23-year-old female player presented with an insidious onset of right foot pain. This was initially only present during training but progressed to become sore while walking and at rest. She was found to have localised tenderness over her fifth metatarsal shaft, pain with compression of the forefoot and pain hopping. The player’s past [...]

Case A 45-year-old male recreational football player presents with a four month history of swelling over the dorsum of his right foot. He cannot identify any significant cause for this. He reported increasing difficulty wearing tightly fitting shoes as well as altered sensation over his great toe. On examination there was a visible, and palpable, [...]

Case A 25-year-old male player presented with localised lateral knee pain. He thinks that this might have started when he slipped and twisted his knee while training. He was however able to continue to train and did not develop pain until a few days after this injury. On examination, he was found to have localised [...]

Case A 21-year-old female player presented after a twisting injury to her left knee. She describes a feeling of instability in her knee, rapid swelling and an inability to continue to playing. On examination, she had gross laxity with Lachmans test, an effusion and a restricted ROM. The player had a history of a previous [...]