Athletic Training Case Study Essay

This case review involved a 19-year-old male football play who is currently a freshman in college. He came into the athletic training room complaining of right wrist pain. This athlete has had pain in this wrist for a couple of mouths and had only every taped the wrist two weeks prior to coming into the athletic training room for his first treatment. Even before coming in, he was able to do every drill or exercise at practice to completion. He only reported feeling pain during practice when he would hit a shield used to be a blocking dummy. Even when taped he was still experiencing thus pain. When evaluated in the athletic training room he had pain going into full extension, which explains why he had pain going up against the shield. Before this injury to the wrist, he had no other injuries to this extremity. When it came to the evaluation the athlete had no range of motion deficits. The athlete did, however, have the most crepitus with flexion and some minor crepitus with extension. The only time the athlete even felt pain during his evaluation was been he was doing actively forced extension. It should also be noted that the patient had minor swelling on the wrist. It was determined after the evaluation that this was …show more content…
This is a very frequently used modality in the many athletic training rooms. This modality mainly used in the athletic training setting as a therapeutic agent and not a diagnostic tool. Ultrasound uses acoustic energy at high frequencies. The goal of this could be to achieve thermal or non-thermal physiological effects. In this case review ultrasound was used as a non-thermal healing agent. This acoustic energy is caused by an electrical current that causes the mechanical vibration of a crystalline material that is in the head of the machine. It is this energy that the vibrations are producing that travel through the tissue and is hopefully is absorbed to help treat an