Objective
 The aim of this study is to investigate whether psychosocial
 factors such as anxiety level or coping
 resources affect the occurrence injury.
 Materials and Methods
 A total 83 professional football players participated
 in study. At beginning study, State-
 Trait Anxiety Inventory, Athletic Coping Skills Inventory-
 28 Multidimensional Scale ...

background: the purpose of this study was to determine changes in sole arch index and their effects on non-contact lower-extremity injury rates among male karateka. materials and methods: forty-five male karateka with knee or ankle injuries were chosen from 288 male athletes attending 6 athletic clubs in kerman-iran. injury-related data were collected via a data recording sheet and sole arch in...

Introduction and Aims: Shoulder stabilisation surgery results in substantial time loss from participation sport. Following surgery, most athletes desire to return pre-injury sporting activity at their level. However, high rates of re-injury have been reported strength functional performance tests may provide valuable insight into an athlete’s upper body function readiness sport following surger...

CONTEXT Jam injuries of the finger are frequently encountered in general orthopaedic and sports medicine practice. The finger joints in particular are very susceptible to traumatic injury, but in the absence of severe deformity, digital trauma is often downplayed in the hopes of a more rapid return to game play. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Articles published from 1966 to 2015 were reviewed to captur...

Groin injuries in high-performance athletes are common, occurring in 5% to 28% of athletes. Athletic pubalgia syndrome, or so-called sports hernia, is one such injury that can be debilitating and sport ending in some athletes. It is a clinical diagnosis of chronic, painful musculotendinous injury to the medial inguinal floor occurring with athletic activity. Over the past 12 years, we have oper...

BACKGROUND Self-reported outcome measures of athlete health, wellbeing and performance add information to that obtained from clinical measures. However valid, universally accepted outcome measures are required. OBJECTIVE To determine which athlete-reported outcome measures of performance have been used to measure the impact of injury and illness on performance in sport and assess evidence to ...