1. Sports Medicine II

2.  Determination of serious life threatening injury  Done on field immediately after injury  Life-threatening conditions ◦ Airway obstruction ◦ No breathing ◦ No circulation ◦ Profuse bleeding ◦ Shock

3.  Thorough evaluation-off the field  Sidelines, ER, TR ◦ Vital signs ◦ Musculoskeletal assessment  HOPS ◦ History ◦ Observation ◦ Palpation ◦ Special Tests  SOAP note ◦ Subjective  What the athlete tells you ◦ Objective  What you observe ◦ Assessment  Special tests, ROM, palpations ◦ Plan  How is it treated

4.  Soft tissue-soft and spongy, a gradual painless stop ◦ Ex. knee flexion  Capsular feel-firm endpoint  Bone to bone-a distinct and abrupt endpoint, two hard surfaces come together  Muscular-springy feeling ◦ Ex. Shoulder abduction

5.  Empty feel-pain occurs before the end of the range  Spasm-involuntary muscles contraction, guarding  Loose-hypermobility  Springy block-rebound at an endpoint ◦ Ex. Meniscus tear