Using a mixed longitudinal design, the incidence of injuries, and the development of flexibility and isometric strength of the upper and lower limbs were studied for 2 years in 453 élite young athletes (aged between 9 and 18 years) practising football, gymnastics, swimming or tennis. The children suffered from a low incidence of injuries. Strength and flexibility did not exert a significant rol...

Dancers are clearly athletes in the degree to which sophisticated physical capacities are required to perform at a high level. The standard complement of athletic attributes - muscular strength and endurance, anaerobic and aerobic energy utilization, speed, agility, coordination, motor control, and psychological readiness - all are essential to dance performance. In dance, as in any athletic ac...

Injuries to the head and neck are the most frequent catastrophic sports injury, and head injuries are the most common direct athletic cause of death. Although direct compressive forces may injure the brain, neural tissue is particularly susceptible to injury from shearing stresses, which are most likely to occur when rotational forces are applied to the head. The most common athletic head injur...

I n recent years, there has been great interest in examining the psychological effects of athletic injuries. This has also extended to interventions in which coping strategies have been suggested to enhance recovery. Concussive injuries, which are common to many sports, hold particular problems in this regard. For example, a concussed athlete may be prone to experience isolation, pain, anxiety,...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pubalgia in patients from a Sports Medicine Center. METHODS Data analysis from medical records of patients with athletic pubalgia attended to from January 2007 to January 2015. The diagnosis was made by an experienced hip surgeon, complemented with pelvic X-ray, abdominal wall ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging ...

OBJECTIVE To establish injury profile of collegiate rugby union in the USA. DESIGN/ SETTING: 31 men's and 38 women's collegiate rugby union teams prospectively recorded injuries during games and practice during the 2005-06 season. Three teams withdrew before data collection. An injury was defined as one: (1) occurring in an organised intercollegiate game or practice; and (2) requiring medical a...

It has been estimated that one-third of all children between 6 and 14 years old are involved in some type of organized sports activity. These facts and figures serve to demonstrate that many children seen by the nurse practitioner will be participating in sports. This article describes important issues in counseling and educating parents, children, schools and coaches; screening examinations fo...

LTHOUGH competitive sports produce more A major injuries to the lower extremity, a sufficient number of injuries to the upper extremity do occur to make a thorough review of their recognition and management worthwhiIe. Furthermore, since most of these injuries involve one of the major joints, such as the elbow or the wrist, inadequate treatment wiI1 often Iead to permanent disability. A number ...

Police, fire, emergency medical services, and military personnel encompass a tactical population that is considered an emerging setting in athletic training.Due to the occupational demands within this demographic, these patients are experiencing musculoskeletal injuries withhold them from career duties at alarming rate. One of main contributors incidence injury lack functional movement.1-3 Inco...

The incidence of noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injuries in young to middle-aged athletes remains high. Despite early diagnosis and appropriate operative and nonoperative treatments, posttraumatic degenerative arthritis may develop. In a meeting in Atlanta, Georgia (January 2005), sponsored by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, a group of physicians, physical therapist...