CONTEXT Lower extremity injuries are common in basketball, yet it is unclear how prophylactic interventions affect lower extremity injury incidence rates. OBJECTIVE To analyze the effectiveness of current lower extremity injury prevention programs in basketball athletes, focusing on injury rates of (1) general lower extremity injuries, (2) ankle sprains, and (3) anterior cruciate ligament (AC...

PURPOSE About 70% injury of gymnasts happened during landing - an interaction between gymnast and landing mat. The most injured joint is the ankle. The current study examined the effect of mechanical properties of landing mat on ankle loading with aims to identify means of decreasing the risk of ankle injury. METHOD Gymnastic skill - salto backward stretched with 3/2 twist was captured by two...

Case 1 description Buddy is an active 33-year-old man who presents to the emergency department (ED) complaining of pain in his left ankle and foot after falling while back-country skiing 3 days ago. The fall involved a moderatespeed slide down a steep chute and rotational release of the left leg from the ski binding. Buddy experienced immediate pain to the lateral malleolar region. Immediately ...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) published the latest results from the spring 2001 sports season with injuries to the ankle being in the top three most prevalent in softball, spring football, and men’s and women’s lacrosse. However, injuries to the ankle are no fault of the sport, but rather due to the structural properties of the ankle mortise, which make it more susceptible...

ABSTRACT Introduction Discuss the application of magnetic resonance imaging in evaluating ankle motion injury. Objective Verify influencing factors resource (MRI) diagnosis based on linear regression algorithm model. Methods The experimental group was diagnosed by MRI, while control plain X-ray. After that, mathematical model constructed. Results It could be concluded that MRI detection rate 85...

OBJECTIVE To compare injury risk in elite football played on artificial turf compared with natural grass. DESIGN Prospective two-cohort study. SETTING Male European elite football leagues. PARTICIPANTS 290 players from 10 elite European clubs that had installed third-generation artificial turf surfaces in 2003-4, and 202 players from the Swedish Premier League acting as a control group. ...

From 1981 to 1985, 193 611 sport parachute jumps were made in the Netherlands of which 267 were reported to have resulted in injury; a detailed report was presented in this journal by Steinberg'. The present communication reports on the results of a follow-up study of that report, based on questionnaires and radiological data. Attention was paid to the accuracy of the types of the reported inju...

OBJECTIVE To present the epidemiology, etiology, diagnostic criteria and therapeutic interventions for an important clinical entity - tibiofibular syndesmosis or "high ankle" sprains. CLINICAL FEATURES The most common mechanism of injury is forced external rotation in a dorsiflexed foot. Pain is located anteriorly over the anterior tibiofibular ligament, and is elicited through a variety of t...

End-stage arthritis of the ankle causes significant pain and functional disability in affected individuals. Until the 1970s, arthrodesis was the standard treatment for symptomatic ankle arthritis. During the 1980s and 1990s, surgeons considered a number of different total ankle replacement designs. With improved understanding of ankle biomechanics and advances in implant design and surgical tec...

BACKGROUND Ankle sprains are common sporting injuries generally believed to be benign and self limiting. However, some studies report a significant proportion of patients with ankle sprains having persistent symptoms for months or even years. AIMS To determine the proportion of patients presenting to an Australian sports medicine clinic who had long term symptoms after a sports related invers...