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 [...]

Case A 49-year-old male recreational player presented two weeks after an injury to his left hamstring. He described having lunged forwards with his left leg to contest a ball. He felt a tearing sensation in his proximal hamstring and was unable to continue. He did not develop any significant bruising. Since the injury he had [...]

Case A 37-year-old ex-professional player presented with a six-month history of increasing pain in his dominant right shoulder. He described a deep ache felt within the deltoid region that was exacerbated by movement, especially end-range movements. On examination he had a mild global restriction of shoulder movements with pain towards the extremes of range. Rotation [...]

Case A 21-year-old male professional male player presented four weeks after an innocuous inversion injury to his ankle. While he did not immediately think that this was too severe, he had not been unable to return to play due to ongoing discomfort along the lateral aspect of the ankle. Further questioning revealed that prior to [...]