Sports Medicine FINAL STUDY GUIDE

Unit 1 – Introduction and Orientation

What items can be found in an Athletic Trainer’s Kit?

Unit 2 - Careers in the Medical Field

Give examples of various professions in the medical field.

Unit 3 – Medical Organization

What is OSHA?

What is HIPPA?

Define ethics and be able to give an example. How can you make sure you have good ethics?
Unit 4 – Introduction to Medical Terminology

Vocabulary

Heart -

Surgical repair -

Stomach -

Slow -

Kidney -

Fast -

Nose -

Pain -

Surgical removal -

What is a prefix, word root, and suffix?

How is our body organized?

What is anatomical position?

Directional terms:

Superior/inferior
 Anterior/posterior

Medial/lateral

What are the systems that make up the body?

Unit 5 – Skeletal System

Bones:

Cheekbone- Thigh bone -

Jaw- Lower leg bones-

Upper arm- Wrist bones-

Forearm bones- Ankle bones-

Knee cap- Fingers/toes-

Collar bone - Breastbone-

Unit 6 – Muscular System

List some major muscle groups of the body

What are the three types of muscle and where can each be found in the body?

Muscle Actions

Abduction/adduction

Flexion/extension

Unit 7 – Mechanisms of Injury

What is a primary survey? (When would we use)

What is a secondary survey? (What do we use it for?)

What does HOPS stand for?

 What does ABC stand for?

4 definitions of the forces

What is a tendon? What is a ligament?

Unit 9 – Lymphatic and Immune System

List the structures in the Lymphatic System.

What is a lymph node and what does it do?

What is the purpose of your tonsils?

What does your spleen do?

 List various ways that our body fights against infections?

Unit 10 – Tissue Response

What does RICE stand for?

What are some factors that can slow down the healing process (interfere with it)?