BACKGROUND Concussions represent 8.9% to 13.2% of all high school athletic injuries. How these injuries are managed is currently unknown. HYPOTHESIS There are differences in concussion management and awareness among boys football, boys ice hockey, and boys and girls soccer. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive epidemiologic study. METHODS High school athletic directors were contacted via e-mail and a...

Objectives: It is important to recognize any risk factors for the development of injuries in the athletic population. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between joint hyper mobility and low back pain in Iranian hyper mobile and non-hyper mobile athletes. Methods: 50 athletic patients with low back pain (age=23.20±12.79 years) and 51 healthy athletes (age=24.28&pl...

This article reviews the pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of sacroiliac joint injuries. These injuries can be acute or chronic and can involve soft tissue structures surrounding the joint or the bony structures of the joint. The several diagnostic modalities for sacroiliac injuries vary in usefulness and accessibility. Treatment of sacroiliac problems is usually supportive and nonspecific an...

I wrote this paper for Kin 2058 Assessment and Evaluation of Athletic Injuries and Illness II (capstone class). This paper examines two of the most common injuries in sport participation, a concussion, and an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tear. Both of these injuries cause psychological effects, in the case of a concussion, it is caused from the direct blow to the head, whereas an ACL tears ...

BACKGROUND Much attention has been given to the relationship between various training factors and athletic injuries, but no study has examined the impact of sleep deprivation on injury rates in young athletes. Information about sleep practices was gathered as part of a study designed to correlate various training practices with the risk of injury in adolescent athletes. METHODS Informed conse...

The aim of this study was to examine the correlations between accidents in traffic, at work, at home, and during sports and leisure time. The study is based on three independent but similar data sets (in 1980 n = 9598, in 1988 n = 13,762, and in 1993 n = 4275) representative of all Finns over 14 years of age. The subjects were asked in a telephone interview to report all accidents in which they...

To cite: Clarsen B, Bahr R. Br J Sports Med 2014;48:510–512. INTRODUCTION What constitutes a ‘recordable event’ is arguably the most critical methodological factor affecting the results of sports injury and illness surveillance studies. Although numerous consensus statements have attempted to standardise surveillance methodology, there remains considerable variation in current definitions of in...

In a prospective study over a period of 5 months (July-November, 1982), 506 patients were treated at a District General Hospital for a sports related injury. All the patients were seen initially in the Casualty Department and the majority of attendances (58%) were due to injuries caused by the two principal contact sports--Association and Rugby football. There were 294 patients (58%) aged 21 or...

The word "mobilise" brings in the positive side of health. "Resources" vary from one person to another and even people with gross physical deformities can achieve a great deal and live a very healthy and productive life. The use of the terms "physically, mentally, spiritually" is preferable to the alternative in the World Health Organisation's definition, i.e. "physically, psychologically and s...