SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Secondary union - ✔✔skin far apart, large scar left
✔✔Factors that Influence Healing - ✔✔Local (location, extent of injury, edema) and
Systemic (blood supply, health/age)
✔✔Ice - ✔✔Vasoconstriction (hunting response: adaptive response to cold) and
Increased inflammatory response
✔✔Tibia - ✔✔Principal weight bearing bone of lower leg
✔✔Medial malleolus - ✔✔small prominent bone on the inner side of the ankle at the end
of the tibia
✔✔Fibula - ✔✔Long thin bone, attached to tibia and primarily for muscle attachment
✔✔Lateral malleolus - ✔✔the bony prominence on the outer side of the ankle
✔✔Talus - ✔✔Rests on calcaneus and is the main weight bearing bone of ankle joint
✔✔Talar dome (trochlea) - ✔✔smooth upper joint of talus body
✔✔Hinge joint - ✔✔synovial and uniaxial (flexion and extension AKA plantarflexion and
dorsiflexion)
✔✔Eversion and inversion - ✔✔result of subtalar joint movement between talus and
calcaneus, as well as intertarsal joints
✔✔Distal tibiofibular joint - ✔✔mortise and tenon joint
✔✔Proprioception - ✔✔sense of position without the aid of vision
✔✔Kinaesthesia - ✔✔awareness of movement of body parts using proprioceptive
sensory organs
✔✔Muscle spindles - ✔✔found in skeletal muscle fibres
✔✔Golgi tendon organs - ✔✔at interface of muscles and tendons
✔✔Joint receptors - ✔✔found in joint capsule surrounding synovial joints
, ✔✔Contusion - ✔✔Traumatic bruise with symptoms including pain, tenderness,
discolouration, and limp
✔✔Tenderness - ✔✔Sensitivity or pain in a specific area.
✔✔Crepitus - ✔✔Popping or clicking sound of a joint.
✔✔Swelling - ✔✔Enlargement of a body part due to accumulation of fluid.
✔✔Complete tendon rest - ✔✔Use of a brace to immobilize the tendon.
✔✔NSAID - ✔✔Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs used to reduce inflammation.
✔✔Physiotherapy - ✔✔Therapeutic treatment to restore movement and function.
✔✔Tape - ✔✔Material used to support and stabilize an injured area.
✔✔Slow return to exercise - ✔✔Gradual reintroduction of physical activity post-injury.
✔✔Inversion sprain - ✔✔Most common type of ankle sprain, usually occurs in
plantarflexion.
✔✔ATFL - ✔✔Anterior talofibular ligament, most commonly injured in inversion.
✔✔Dorsiflexion - ✔✔Movement that brings the foot closer to the shin.
✔✔1st Degree Sprain - ✔✔Partial tear of ligaments with mild tenderness, pain, and
swelling.
✔✔2nd Degree Sprain - ✔✔Incomplete tearing of ligaments with moderate instability
and pain.
✔✔3rd Degree Sprain - ✔✔Complete rupture of ligament(s) with gross instability.
✔✔POLICE - ✔✔Protection, Optimal Loading, Ice, Compression, Elevation - a
treatment protocol.
✔✔Anterior drawer test - ✔✔Assessment method to evaluate ATFL injury by translating
the talus forward.
✔✔Positive test - ✔✔Excessive anterior translation of the talus suggesting ATFL injury.
✔✔Talar Tilt Test - ✔✔Assessment method to evaluate CFL injury by tilting the talus.