Prev/care chapter 15 testtttt
What is the condition when tissue fluid pressure has increased because of the confines of the fascia and/or bone resulting in compression of the muscles, nerves, and blood vessels?
Compartment syndrome
What symptom is associated with stress fractures?
Complaints of pain that increases after activity
What is a general term applied to a variety of overuse leg conditions that seasonally plague many athletes?
Medial Tibilar stress syndrome
After suffering an eversion ankle sprain, which bone is most likely to be fractured?
Fibula
Why is the shin vulnerable to contusions?
The close proximity of tibia to the surface of the skin
Which of the following causes for shin splints is incorrect?
Tibial weakness
Which of the following would be considered a low-level functional test that can be performed by an athlete after an ankle injury?
backward job
Neuromuscular control of the ankle specifically uses which type of exercise to assist in preventing ankle injuries?
balance
The lateral malleolus is part of what bone?
fibula
In the lower leg there are how many separate compartments containing muscles, tendons, blood vessels, and nerves?
four
What is the most commonly sprained ligament in the ankle?
interior talofibular
What motions occur at the subtalar joint?
inversion and eversion
What is the most frequently injured aspect of the ankle?
lateral
What action at the ankle do the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles perform?
plantar flexion
Which of the following is the mechanism of injury for an Achilles tendon rupture?
plantar flexion
What is the most common mechanism of injury to the ankle complex?
plantar flexion inversion
Which of the following is not a sign of anterior compartment syndrome?
weakness of toe flexion
What is the difference between a second degree and third-degree ankle sprain?
• Decreased amount of pain associated with a third-degree sprain
The lateral compartment of the leg contains which muscles?
• Fibularis longus • Fibularis brevis • Tibialis anterior
Third degree inversion ankle sprains are often associated with what trauma?
• Total rupture of lateral ligaments
If an athlete steps in a hole and the ankle is forced into dorsiflexion, which ligament is usually involved?
Anterior tibiofibular
Which of the following muscles plantar flexes the ankle?
soleus gastrocnemius
Eversion ankle sprains are associated with which of the following?
tearing of the deltiod ligament
