Kinesiology 3336A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: High Ankle Sprain, Anatomical Terms Of Motion, Ski Boot
10 Dec 2016
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High ankle sprains and lower leg injuries part 1. Doesn"t al(cid:449)ays follo(cid:449) this order depending on the person"s foot. Beware of fractures from the eversion/external rotation mechanism: video. Mechanism of injury: eversion, external rotation and dorsiflexion. Roll up injury people behind push on the leg and cause external rotation. Fibula on talus is major support for medial side because it stops the ankle from swinging out. Can be any or all of the structure in that slide. Player turns to play the puck and falls awkwardly. If you get a + with the squeeze test, you know its bad. Etiology: 10% (1% -18%) of all ankle sprains involve injury to the inferior tib/fib. joint (syndesmosis), difficult to diagnose with prolonged recovery up to 55 days twice as long to recover compared to a gr. Functional anatomy: when the ankle is in a neutral position the aitfl is oblique both to tibia and fibula.
