Muscular Injuries Case Study

Essential Question: How do we identify a probable diagnosis?

How do we offer standard treatment protocols to a patient?

What type of resources can we share to assist a patient/a layman in understanding both the diagnosis and the treatment options?

Big Idea: There are diseases and conditions that affect the Muscular System.

Goal:

Identify the probable clinical diagnosis in ten case studies based on the type of injury, location of injury and symptoms.
Briefly list standard treatment protocol(s)
Create an artifact (using one of the two options below) that shows how you came to your diagnosis in ONE of the ten cases, uses curated material to help explain your diagnoses, and recommended treatment options, in a video that shows you explaining (as if to a patient) those things.

Mass State Science Standards

4. Anatomy and Physiology

Broad Concept: There is a relationship between the organization of cells into tissues, and tissues into organs. The structure and function of organs determine their relationships within body systems of an organism.

Explain how the muscular/skeletal system (skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle, bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons) works with other systems.

NSTA Next Generation Science Standards

Develop, revise, and/or use a model based on evidence to illustrate and/or predict the relationships between systems or between components of a system.

In the Explore stage, students explain the normal components and functions of the chosen skeletal system disorder by analyzing models and then in the Explain stage, students discuss ideas, make a video to share with classmates to communicate their understanding of their chosen model as it relates to skeletal system.

Part 1: Directions: Read the case studies below, make a diagnosis based on researching their symptoms, give a description of the problem and then explain the treatment options. Put this all on the attached chart. You will choose one of these injuries to research, in more detail, later.
Part 2: Directions: Chose one of the 10 case studies and do a deeper dive. Once you've selected your case, you will create a video/ "presentation" in either Canva or in FlipGrid in which you fully explain, as if to a patient, the details of the diagnosis, the possible treatments and will include literature, graphics, printed/digital information to aid in your explanations.
- You may chose to include a classmate to "be the patient" in your video, or you may simply speak to the camera as though IT was your patient.
  - If you choose Canva, you will be using the video recorder and putting up artifacts in the presentation.
  - If you chose FlipGrid you may use the Greenscreen or the Effects/photos to superimpose your artifacts.

Part One: The 10 Patients

Make Your OWN copy of the Part 1 Instructions

From your research, you will create an infographic (on Canva) that illustrates and thoroughly explains detailed information on the disorder. The facts should draw on your knowledge of the skeletal system learned in this unit in addition to new material found through research. There should be specific information using the language of anatomy (names of bones, ligaments, joint types, bone features, etc.)

Issues to include in the presentation

Description of the disorder/procedure: including symptoms and physical effects
Rates of the disorder
Treatment(s) available
Accuracy and anatomical details
Unique or particularly interesting information (fun facts) are always good

You Must include QR codes to: related videos, URLs to sites where you've gotten information, Text Explanations (in your own words)- And you MUST include a QR code linked to your Google Survey.

Injuries case studies project part 1

Patient 1: A 16 year girl who plays soccer for her high school team injured herself when she collided with another athlete during a game. She reported hearing a loud “popping” sound in her knee and experienced tremendous knee pain and swelling. An X-ray did not show bone damage, but an MRI indicated her injury

Patient 2: A 42 year old woman who is a recreational runner (2-3 times per week) was running and experienced sudden sharp knee pain. This was followed by a large amount of swelling and pain. An MRI diagnosed her injury

Patient 3: A 45 year old man who was playing touch football with his family on the weekend. When running with the ball he experiences severe pain in the back of his ankle that causes him to fall down and unable to extend his foot

Patient 4: A 65 year old woman was exercising at her gym. While getting onto the treadmill to walk she fell and landed on her outstretched arms and shoulder. After experiencing days of shoulder pain and limited mobility she went to her doctors and an MRI diagnosed her injury

Patient 5: A 38 year old woman who plays tennis 4-5 times per week at her tennis club and competes in frequent tennis club matches is experiencing elbow and forearm pain.

Patient 6: A 15 year old boy who pitches for his high school baseball team develops pain in the medial side of his elbow making pitching and even holding the ball very painful.

Patient 7: A 50 year old man who works in a factory assembling small parts develops wrist pain and swelling in both the wrist and forearm of his right arm.

Patient 8: A 27 year old man was rear ended by another car which failed to stop. He develops severe neck pain that makes it difficult to flex and extend his neck

Patient 9: A 40 year old long distance runner and hiker develops lateral knee pain that occasionally extends up the lateral side of his thigh. The pain does decrease with rest but flares back up again when he resumes activity

Patient 10: A 31 year old nurse develops chronic and intense heel pain which makes it difficult to work since any pressure on the foot is extremely painful

Make your OWN copy of the Injury Grid Make Your OWN copy of the Part 2 Instructions