Mechanisms and Characteristics of Sports Trauma Review Questions

1. Describe the mechanics that produce non-contractile and contractile sports injuries.

2. Describe the injurious mechanical forces that injure skin.

3. What forces injure muscle tissue?

4. Describe all types of acute muscle injuries.

5. Describe all types of chronic muscle injuries.

6. Describe the major acute injuries occurring to joints.

7. What mechanical forces traumatize the musculotendinous unit arid the synovial joint? How are the forces similar to one another, and how are they different?

8. What forces gradually weaken tendons and ligaments?

9. Contrast two chronic synovial joint injuries.

10. List the structural characteristics that make a long bone susceptible to fracture.

11. What mechanical forces cause acute fracture of a bone?

12. How do stress fractures probably occur?

13. Describe the most common epiphyseal conditions that result from sports participation.

14. Discuss the concept of pathomechanics as it relates to microtraumas and overuse syndromes.