Sports Medicine II: Procedures in Sports Medicine

Bracing

• Appreciate the role of bracing in the management of soft tissue and osseous injury for the wrist, knee, foot, and ankle
• Examine the variance in material construction, design characteristics, and resulting functional motion with various brace designs
• Understand appropriate fitting, modification, and patient instruction required for various brace designs

Casting

• Appreciate a historical review of immobilization
• Understand common complications after casting
• Practice performing extremity immobilization, including the following:
• short arm cast
• short arm thumb spica cast
• short arm with gutter extension
• non‐weight bearing short leg cast

Injections

• Increase the number of soft tissue and joint injections that can be performed comfortably and competently before completing residency
• Be aware of serious complications that can occur with specific soft tissue and joint injections
• Learn three different approaches to intra‐articular knee injections
• Identify substances commonly used for therapeutic injections for joint and musculotendinous problems
• Understand the quality of evidence regarding injection therapies
• Appreciate the relative accuracy of therapeutic injections
• Practice performing injection on simulated model

Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

• Appreciate the emerging role of musculoskeletal ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal injuries
• Recognize specific knee and hip ultrasound anatomy
• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of MSKUS as an imaging modality
• Appreciate the use of ultrasound in the examination of the shoulder, wrist, and elbow
• Identify useful procedures that can be enhanced using MSKUS
• Grasp the factors that may limit the application of MSKUS in upper extremity imaging in the office setting
• Practice performing ultrasounds