BACKGROUND The ability to determine athletic performance in varsity athletes using preseason measures has been established. The ability of pre-season performance measures and athlete's exposure to predict the incidence of injuries is unclear. Thus our purpose was to determine the ability of pre-season measures of athletic performance to predict time to injury in varsity athletes. METHODS Male...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate landing strategies of female football and basketball athletes with relation to possible injury mechanisms and disparity in injury. DESIGN Descriptive laboratory study. PARTICIPANTS 52 female football players and 41 female basketball players. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Frontal plane projection angle (FPPA) was measured during the single leg land (SLL) and drop jump (DJ) sc...

BACKGROUND Although research into the psychological aspects of sports injury is increasing and psychological interventions have been identified as important in the rehabilitation process, few studies have focused on how sports medicine practitioners deal with psychological problems. OBJECTIVE To investigate the perceptions of English chartered physiotherapists on the psychological content of ...

Professional boxing is associated with a risk of chronic neurological injury, with up to 20-50% of former boxers exhibiting symptoms of chronic brain injury. Chronic traumatic brain injury encompasses a spectrum of disorders that are associated with long-term consequences of brain injury and remains the most difficult safety challenge in modern-day boxing. Despite these concerns, traditional gu...

Dynamic impact responses and brain tissue deformations from helmeted centric and non-centric headform impacts were assessed with respect to suggested concussive injury thresholds from the literature. Results from six commercially available ice hockey helmets were compared statistically. It is proposed that the current centric impact standards for ice hockey helmets measuring linear acceleration...

Injuries to the knee, including intra-articular fractures, ligamentous ruptures, and meniscal and articular cartilage lesions, are commonplace within sports. Despite advancements in surgical techniques and enhanced rehabilitation, athletes returning to cutting, pivoting, and jumping sports after a knee injury are at greater risk of sustaining a second injury. The clinical utility of objective c...

BACKGROUND Injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is associated not only with knee instability and impaired neuromuscular control, but also with altered postural orientation manifested as observable "substitution patterns". However, tests currently used to evaluate knee function in subjects with ACL injury are not designed to assess postural orientation. Therefore, we are in the process...