Developing Powerful Athletes, Part 1: Mechanical Underpinnings

Femoroacetabular Impingement in Athletes, Part 1

CONTEXT Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is a common cause of intra-articular hip pathology and secondary osteoarthritis. It affects athletes at a young age as they push their bodies beyond the diminished physiologic limits imposed by the altered joint morphology. Understanding the cause of this condition and its assessment in athletes is important. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION The scientific liter...

Youth Athletes and Sports Medicine: Part 1.

Ask many pediatric providers to serve as part of a sports medicine team, and quite likely you will get a lack of perceived comfort with lamentations over insufficient specific training1 and experience. However, ask those same providers to profess aptitude with injury prevention, discussing growth and development, and using risk-benefit analysis, and you will encounter a far more confident respo...

Femoroacetabular Impingement in Athletes, Part II

CONTEXT Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is a common cause of hip pathology and secondary dysfunction among athletes. Much information has been gained regarding the cause and pathomechanics of this disorder. Now, efforts are focusing on treatment to restore the joint and reduce the secondary damage that causes painful dysfunction. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION This article reviews the scientific lit...

Youth Athletes and Sports Medicine: Part 2.

Amenorrhoeic athletes: at risk of developing osteoporosis?

an increasing incidence of medical complications. Among these are menstrual disorders, including a delay in the onset of menstruation, oligoor amenorrhoea, and inadequacy of progesterone secretion during the luteal phase of the cycle. At first, only sporadic accounts of such disturbances appeared, suggesting that pre-existing functional derangements of cyclicity were likely to be responsible. H...