Case presentation A 9-year-old female presents with 5 weeks of progressively worsening left knee pain. There has been no known trauma and the family denies fever, rash, knee swelling or erythema, weakness, numbness, or incontinence. She is able to ambulate…
Case presentation A 2-year-old male presents with acute right leg pain after falling while jumping on a trampoline. Apparently, he fell off the trampoline onto the ground and landed on his left leg. The distance was estimated at 3 ft…
Case 1 presentation A 14-year-old male presents with a complaint of acute right hip pain. The patient is an avid soccer player and was kicking a ball “pretty hard.” Immediately upon full extension of the right leg, he felt a…
Case presentation A 12-year-old male presents with a left fifth phalanx injury (his “pinky” finger). He was jumping on a trampoline and somehow injured the digit; he believes he landed on the digit. Since then, he has had pain and…
Case presentation A 15-year-old male presents with left hand pain after becoming angry and punching a wall. He did this several hours ago and his only complaint is medial hand pain; he denies digit, wrist, forearm, or elbow pain. He…
Case presentation A 16-year-old female presents to the emergency department with complaints of right wrist and hand pain following a fall on an outstretched hand during sports practice after school. Vital signs are age appropriate and her physical examination is…
Case presentation An 11-year-old male presents with left wrist pain and swelling 3 days after he fell while playing soccer. Apparently, in the course of the game, he fell on his outstretched left arm. After the injury, he continued to…
Case presentation A 4-year-old male presents with right forearm pain after falling while in a “bouncy house.” Apparently, the child was in the house with several other children and had a witnessed fall onto the arm. The parents noted that…
Case presentation A 4-year-old child presents after falling on an outstretched hand while running at school. He complains of pain to the right forearm and is splinted by the school nurse and given pain medicine by paramedics. There is no…
Case presentation A 12-year-old male presents after a direct fall onto his right arm and shoulder while playing soccer. He is comfortable and prefers to hold the arm close to his body and is supporting the injured arm with his…