This project is designed to be of great benefit to you in continuing to prepare for your professional career in athletic training. It is designed for you to continue to update and add to as you gain more knowledge, skills, and insight through clinical experiences, courses, readings, research, etc.

Format: All work should be in Microsoft Word 97 and emailed to me. I would strongly suggest keeping a backup copy on another diskette or your hard drive. This is too much work to have to do over.

Setup: Outline numbered (same or similar to example). This does not mean that all info has to be in complete outline form. Incomplete or complete sentences are acceptable, as are paragraphs. However, all information must in placed in the appropriate place in the outline. Redundancy is not required; you may refer to a previous place in the outline to avoid unnecessary repetition if you prefer. However, this project may be more useful to you in the future to repeat similar information rather that refer back (less page turning). Do not attempt to keep this project too brief, you will only be shorting yourself. Also, it would be more useful to organize the injuries in a consistent and orderly manner such as placing all sprains in sequence before beginning fractures.

Focus: The focus of this particular course project is to thoroughly outline all of the related anatomy and injuries of the lower body (see lower body injury list) in a manner similar to the example provided for you. Most of your effort should be on the evaluation and assessment of these injuries, which includes predisposition, mechanism, presentation, signs and symptoms, examination and evaluation procedure, and classification. Generally, you should definitely have the major headings: (1) Mechanism of injury; (2) Signs and symptoms; and (3) Examination and evaluation procedure. In specific or all cases you may want to include or incorporate the major headings of (1) Predisposition; (2) Presentation; (3) Classification; (4) Reduction procedure; (5) Referral/Diagnostic Procedure; (6) Special emergency considerations; or others. Your outline form may need some adaptation as driven by pertinent data. It is also strongly recommended that common and technical (medical) names are included in your outline sections. Although each student will complete the entire project, it is not expected for all outlines to be exactly the same. Feel free to add information to your outline, as you feel appropriate. All statements do not have to be backed up research or references. While you do need to be thorough, complete, and accurate, it is acceptable to include your individual observations and examination preferences. Do not feel as if you have to thoroughly understand all aspects of a particular injury, examination procedure, etc. to include it. Put all relevant information in the outline and develop it further as you develop this quarter and in future years. You should also include at least basic information in the last two sections: (4) Treatment, management, and rehabilitation; and (5) Protection for activity and competition. These two sections will be added to significantly when taking the modalities and rehabilitation courses.

References: Inclusion of references is not required to be complete but you will certainly have to utilize a number of sources to do a complete job. I would suggest numbering the references, including them under section (6) or appropriate number, and then inserting their numbers at the end of the information. This will provide you assistance in future inquiries. Feel free to collaborate and utilize any and all resources possible.

Schedule: Lumbosacral Spine January 24

Hip/Thigh/Pelvis February 7

Knee February 21

Foot/Ankle/Leg March 6