Stems to Sternum: Sports Imaging Inside and Out Online Course 2022 (Videos)

Stems to Sternum Sports Imaging 2022

Stems to Sternum Sports Imaging is an ARRS course covering clinically important anatomy and sports injuries from the extremities to the chest and abdomen. It connects tendon, muscle, ligament, cartilage, bone, and joint pathology with radiography, ultrasound, CT, and MRI.

Audience and Learning Outcomes

The official course is intended for radiologists and other health professionals interested in sports-injury imaging. Its stated outcomes are to identify important extremity anatomy, list common sports-injury conditions, recognize their imaging features, and understand the roles of radiography, ultrasound, CT, and MRI.

Course Modules

Module 1: Basics and Beyond—Sports-Related Knee Injury

Knee anatomy and function, cruciate and posterolateral-corner assessment, postoperative meniscus and ACL imaging, and other common athletic knee problems.

Module 2: Acute Sports Injury in the Knee

Bone-marrow edema patterns, cartilage injury and repair, athletic knee interventions, and classification and treatment considerations.

Module 3: Acute and Chronic Hand and Wrist Sports Injuries

Athletic wrist-ligament injury, overuse disorders, thumb injury, and finger tendon and pulley lesions.

Module 4: Chest and Body-Related Sports Injuries

Cardiac events, traumatic lung injury, blunt abdominal trauma, and scrotal trauma in athletes.

Module 5: Elbow Injuries in Sports

Valgus-extension overload, biceps and triceps injury, pediatric fractures and growth-plate injury, and adult overuse disorders.

Module 6: Sporting Shoulder

SLAP and throwing injuries, glenohumeral dislocation, rotator-cuff injury, and biceps-tendon and rotator-interval lesions.

Module 7: Foot and Ankle Injuries in Sports

Ankle sprain and fracture patterns, osteochondral injury, stress fracture, metatarsalgia, plantar-plate injury, and turf toe.

Module 8: Just Common Enough—Sports-Related Injuries

Pediatric avulsion injuries, thoracic outlet syndrome, chest-wall injury, and vertebral and spine injury in athletes.

Module 9: Pelvis, Hip, and Thigh Sports Injuries

Athletic pubalgia and core injury, hip labrum and impingement, rectus femoris and hamstring injury, and pudendal and sciatic nerve injury.