Assessment of the Injured Ankle I. Injury Situation: A female volleyball player was in practice and was involved in a blocking drill. When she made the attempt to block the attacker on the other side of the net, they both landed on the center line causing her to come down on the attacker’s foot. This caused the ankle to roll over the outside of her foot. II. Evaluation of the Injury: pain and swelling is localized to the lateral side of the ankle, some inability to bear weight after injury…
needs to be sent to the hospital due to compartment syndrome being a surgical emergency because if it is not taken care of right away the soft tissues will start to die and permanent disabilities can occur. There are four compartments in the lower leg; anterior and lateral compartment and a posterior compartment which has a superficial and deep sub-compartment. The symptoms are called the five P’s: Pain, pallor, paresthesia, pulselessness, and paralysis. Swelling is also commonly found in…
intensity of your training. • Overuse of the knee joint. • Your body trying to compensate for other leg injuries. RISK FACTORS The following factors…
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her body as lay there. The chasm was in a great deal of pain there. There was a lot of blood flowing from there. She vaguely remembered the lead rider, whom she fought. As he tore off her garments. Drove her head into the ground. He pried her legs apart, her legs had bruises upon them where she had seen his hands rest there. The bruises looked to be the size of his huge hands. she could see the creases that were the imprint of his hands. She felt something growing hard and long about just before…
How am I Building Individuality as a performer, what are my weaknesses and how can I enhance them, how can I continue with my strengths. Being commercially trained first has influenced my individuality of a performer greatly. It has permitted me to learn to engage with the audience, to attack choreography and not just go through the motions. Resulting in strong movement quality I perceive this as strength as Bandauer.D, Rovegno.T(2016)state “Simply performing the skill is not enough—the quality…
I found this particular project very challenging since I’m not that really ‘active’ when it comes to exercise. Don’t get me wrong, but I like to work on my pace; weightlifting allows me to do that. Basketball and other team sports were never a go to exercises for me just because there’s a lot of running that has to be done. I always play as the ‘team manager’, looking out for the players and getting what they need. Although I have a big body built, I never tried to push myself too far because of…
for one thing, I was born without the bottom half of my right leg, and I now have a prosthetic right leg. A lot of people do not know my struggles, but my struggles in have shaped my whole life and has made me who I am today. Ever since I was born my parents knew I was special. Everything about…
phase Mrs Ogle’s hip and knee move through normal ranges. Her ankle how ever does not achieve the neutral position that it should. Due to the lack of momentum from the pre-swing phase increase muscle work from the hip flexors is essential to swing the leg through. As her ankle is in 10 of plantarflexion the swing phase finishes prematurely as her forefoot contacts the floor decreasing her step length. Mrs Ogle is exhibiting decreased dorsiflexion as a primary impairment throughout the gait…
She also had a little bit of a forward lean. During the single-leg squat test, she had a slight inward movement at her knees. Both tests showed that she has tight muscles in the lateral part of her legs. These tight muscle include: the soleus, lateral gastrocnemius, the adductor complex, tensor fascia latae, vastus lateralis, and the short head of the biceps femoris ((NASM), 2013). She also has weak muscles on the medial part of her legs. These underactive muscles include: Her medial…