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A hip most commonly dislocates in this direction:

From the epidemiological articles on NCAA injury surveillance on high, medial and lateral ankle sprains, match the injury to the correct athlete exposures. 

All are associated with acute tear of ACL except for:

All go with S1 radiculopathy from a herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), except for:

An athlete’s subtalar joint neutral measure is 8 degrees of varus; this is called rearfoot varus deformity. 

Medical meniscal tears are more common that lateral tears. 

An athlete has pain with palpation over the navicular tuberosity. This/these should be part of the different diagnosis:

Distal femoral OCD most commonly occurs on the lateral femoral condyle 

All of these are used to assess the integrity of the PCL except for:

A female soccer player rolls her ankle. On the sideline you immediately rule out fracture with squeeze testing and Ottawa rules. The only painful palpation is within the sinus tarsi. Kleiger’s test is negative. Anterior drawer test is painful, but does not show instability. The most logical diagnosis is: