EOPA SPORTS MEDICINE FINAL STUDY EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+2025/2026
✔✔Scope of Practice - ✔✔The skills and responsibilities of your level of training. What
you can and cannot do as part of your career.
✔✔Title IX - ✔✔Gender equity law
✔✔SOAP - ✔✔Proper documentation format; Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan -
✔✔EAP - ✔✔Plan detailing how to deal with an emergency. Includes location of
equipment and individual responsibilities. Specific for each sport and venue. -
✔✔Superior - ✔✔Closer to the head or higher than another structure
✔✔Inferior - ✔✔Closer to the feet or lower than another structure
✔✔Anterior - ✔✔More in front than another structure
✔✔Posterior - ✔✔More in back than another structure
✔✔Medial - ✔✔Closer to the midline than another structure
✔✔Lateral - ✔✔Farther away from the midline than another structure
✔✔Distal - ✔✔Further from the root of the limb (extremities only)
✔✔Proximal - ✔✔Closer to the root of the limb (extremities only)
✔✔Superficial - ✔✔Closer to the surface of the body than another structure
✔✔Deep - ✔✔Closer to the core of the body than another structure
✔✔Ventral - ✔✔Towards the belly/front
✔✔Dorsal - ✔✔Towards the back
✔✔Prone - ✔✔Lying face down
✔✔Supine - ✔✔Lying face up
✔✔Unilateral - ✔✔Pertaining to one side of the body
✔✔Bilateral - ✔✔Pertaining to both sides of the body
,✔✔Anatomical Position - ✔✔Standing with the palms facing forward
✔✔Sagittal Plane - ✔✔Divides the body into right and left portions
✔✔Frontal Plane - ✔✔Divides the body into front and back portions; Coronal Plane
✔✔Transverse Plane - ✔✔Divides the body into upper and lower portions; Horizontal
Plane
✔✔Midline - ✔✔Divides the body into EQUAL right and left halves; Midsagittal Plane
✔✔Articulation - ✔✔The site at which bones meet to form a joint
✔✔Bursa - ✔✔A fluid-filled sac at a joint that prevents friction
✔✔Cartilage - ✔✔Gristle-like padding that lies on or between bones
✔✔Ligament - ✔✔Tissue that connects bone to bone
✔✔Tendon - ✔✔Tissue that connects muscle to bone
✔✔Cryotherapy - ✔✔Treatment by use of cold
✔✔Hydrotherapy - ✔✔Treatment by use of water
✔✔Thermotherapy - ✔✔Treatment by use of heat
✔✔Modality - ✔✔Method or apparatus used for healing an injury
✔✔Proprioception - ✔✔Sense of the body's position in space
✔✔Range of Motion - ✔✔Movement of a joint around a central point (how much motion
occurs at a joint)
✔✔Reduction - ✔✔To bring back to the normal position
✔✔Valgus - ✔✔Distal aspect of limb forced away from the midline
✔✔Varus - ✔✔Distal aspect of limb forced toward midline
✔✔Indicate - ✔✔To advise the use of
, ✔✔Contraindicate - ✔✔To advise against
✔✔Acclimatization - ✔✔The process of the body physiologically adapting to an
unfamiliar environment (altitude or temperatures)
✔✔Aerobic - ✔✔Work or exercise requiring oxygen. (Endurance, long in duration yet
low in intensity)
✔✔Anaerobic - ✔✔Work or exercise not requiring oxygen. (Sprints, short in duration
and high in intensity)
✔✔Analgesic - ✔✔An agent for producing insensibility to pain
✔✔Constriction - ✔✔State of being pinched off or smaller than normal
✔✔Dilation - ✔✔State of being enlarged
✔✔Contralateral - ✔✔On the opposite side
✔✔Diagnosis - ✔✔The name of the disease or condition a person is believed to have
✔✔Prognosis - ✔✔Prediction of the course and end of a disease or eventual outcome
of an injury
✔✔Innervate - ✔✔To supply with nerves
✔✔Palpation - ✔✔Examination by touch
✔✔Vasoconstrictor - ✔✔An agent causing the constriction or closing of blood vessels
✔✔Vasodilator - ✔✔An agent causing the dilation or opening of blood vessels
✔✔Abrasion - ✔✔Minor wound in which the skin's surface is rubbed or scraped
✔✔Avulsion - ✔✔Tearing or pulling away or a part of a structure
✔✔Bursitis - ✔✔Inflammation of a bursa
✔✔Contusion - ✔✔A bruise to a bone or muscle, caused by an outside force resulting in
tissue damage and internal bleeding.
✔✔Dislocation - ✔✔Complete displacement of a bone from its normal position in a joint.
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+2025/2026
✔✔Scope of Practice - ✔✔The skills and responsibilities of your level of training. What
you can and cannot do as part of your career.
✔✔Title IX - ✔✔Gender equity law
✔✔SOAP - ✔✔Proper documentation format; Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan -
✔✔EAP - ✔✔Plan detailing how to deal with an emergency. Includes location of
equipment and individual responsibilities. Specific for each sport and venue. -
✔✔Superior - ✔✔Closer to the head or higher than another structure
✔✔Inferior - ✔✔Closer to the feet or lower than another structure
✔✔Anterior - ✔✔More in front than another structure
✔✔Posterior - ✔✔More in back than another structure
✔✔Medial - ✔✔Closer to the midline than another structure
✔✔Lateral - ✔✔Farther away from the midline than another structure
✔✔Distal - ✔✔Further from the root of the limb (extremities only)
✔✔Proximal - ✔✔Closer to the root of the limb (extremities only)
✔✔Superficial - ✔✔Closer to the surface of the body than another structure
✔✔Deep - ✔✔Closer to the core of the body than another structure
✔✔Ventral - ✔✔Towards the belly/front
✔✔Dorsal - ✔✔Towards the back
✔✔Prone - ✔✔Lying face down
✔✔Supine - ✔✔Lying face up
✔✔Unilateral - ✔✔Pertaining to one side of the body
✔✔Bilateral - ✔✔Pertaining to both sides of the body
,✔✔Anatomical Position - ✔✔Standing with the palms facing forward
✔✔Sagittal Plane - ✔✔Divides the body into right and left portions
✔✔Frontal Plane - ✔✔Divides the body into front and back portions; Coronal Plane
✔✔Transverse Plane - ✔✔Divides the body into upper and lower portions; Horizontal
Plane
✔✔Midline - ✔✔Divides the body into EQUAL right and left halves; Midsagittal Plane
✔✔Articulation - ✔✔The site at which bones meet to form a joint
✔✔Bursa - ✔✔A fluid-filled sac at a joint that prevents friction
✔✔Cartilage - ✔✔Gristle-like padding that lies on or between bones
✔✔Ligament - ✔✔Tissue that connects bone to bone
✔✔Tendon - ✔✔Tissue that connects muscle to bone
✔✔Cryotherapy - ✔✔Treatment by use of cold
✔✔Hydrotherapy - ✔✔Treatment by use of water
✔✔Thermotherapy - ✔✔Treatment by use of heat
✔✔Modality - ✔✔Method or apparatus used for healing an injury
✔✔Proprioception - ✔✔Sense of the body's position in space
✔✔Range of Motion - ✔✔Movement of a joint around a central point (how much motion
occurs at a joint)
✔✔Reduction - ✔✔To bring back to the normal position
✔✔Valgus - ✔✔Distal aspect of limb forced away from the midline
✔✔Varus - ✔✔Distal aspect of limb forced toward midline
✔✔Indicate - ✔✔To advise the use of
, ✔✔Contraindicate - ✔✔To advise against
✔✔Acclimatization - ✔✔The process of the body physiologically adapting to an
unfamiliar environment (altitude or temperatures)
✔✔Aerobic - ✔✔Work or exercise requiring oxygen. (Endurance, long in duration yet
low in intensity)
✔✔Anaerobic - ✔✔Work or exercise not requiring oxygen. (Sprints, short in duration
and high in intensity)
✔✔Analgesic - ✔✔An agent for producing insensibility to pain
✔✔Constriction - ✔✔State of being pinched off or smaller than normal
✔✔Dilation - ✔✔State of being enlarged
✔✔Contralateral - ✔✔On the opposite side
✔✔Diagnosis - ✔✔The name of the disease or condition a person is believed to have
✔✔Prognosis - ✔✔Prediction of the course and end of a disease or eventual outcome
of an injury
✔✔Innervate - ✔✔To supply with nerves
✔✔Palpation - ✔✔Examination by touch
✔✔Vasoconstrictor - ✔✔An agent causing the constriction or closing of blood vessels
✔✔Vasodilator - ✔✔An agent causing the dilation or opening of blood vessels
✔✔Abrasion - ✔✔Minor wound in which the skin's surface is rubbed or scraped
✔✔Avulsion - ✔✔Tearing or pulling away or a part of a structure
✔✔Bursitis - ✔✔Inflammation of a bursa
✔✔Contusion - ✔✔A bruise to a bone or muscle, caused by an outside force resulting in
tissue damage and internal bleeding.
✔✔Dislocation - ✔✔Complete displacement of a bone from its normal position in a joint.
