Case This professional footballer presented acutely after an injury to his left knee. He described sustaining a varus force to his knee in a tackle followed by immediate pain. On examination he had a small effusion. There was isolated laxity of his lateral collateral ligament in 30 degrees flexion and subtle laxity in full extension. [...]

Case A 53 year old coach presented after an injury sustained falling down two stairs three months previously. He described experiencing a popping sensation followed by well localised pain around the medial side of his foot and ankle. On examination there was localised tenderness about the medial malleolus and navicular tuberosity, pain and weakness with [...]

Case A 23-year-old female player presented with a six-month history of posterior thigh pain. While she related the onset of pain to playing football, she did not give a clear history of trauma. The pain reliably woke her from sleep (at about 4am) each night and was almost completely eliminated when she took oral ibuprofen [...]

Case This 19-year-old male player presented with pain in his dominant right shoulder. This was well localised to the acromioclavicular (ACJ) region and was associated with localised tenderness. He gave a history of an ACJ ‘sprain’ one year previously. He reported that the pain seemed to resolve after the initial trauma, however it recurred. The [...]

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 [...]