Few collegiate athletes advance to the ranks of professional. For most collegiate student-athletes, their retirement from athletics will begin soon after their senior campaign, but many have a difficult time leaving their dreams, aspirations, and athletic identity behind. Athletes participating in high-level sports competition have been noted to have an exclusive athletic identity, with most of...

ATHLETIC THERAPY TODAY ATHLETIC THERAPY TODAY MARCH 2005  73 ATELLOFEMORAL-PAIN syndrome (PFPS) is a common knee disorder in young athletes participating in running, jumping, and cutting sports. The prevalence is approximately 25% among adolescent athletes.1 Clinically, females demonstrate a greater incidence of PFPS than their male cohorts. When exacerbated, PFPS forces young athletes to rest...

Scrotal rupture during athletic competition is considered a rare occurrence; however, blunt trauma to the scrotum is relatively common. Protective athletic cups are strongly recommended for both children and adults engaging in contact sports as they likely limit the amount of serious injury to the scrotal contents. Nonetheless, should the on-field assessment by the athletic trainer, coach, or t...

OBJECTIVE: To introduce the concept of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to athletic trainers. This overview provides information on how EBM can affect the clinical practice of athletic training and enhance the care given to patients. DATA SOURCES: We searched the MEDLINE and CINHAL bibliographic databases using the terms evidence-based medicine and best practice and the online Index to Abstracts o...

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic participation. This paper examines the causal implications of this expansion in female sports participation by us...

The purpose of this study was to test a structural model to determine which psychosocial constructs affected the purchase intention of athletic team merchandise (ATM). Results from the analyses indicated that the twelve-factor ATM model fit the data from collegiate athletic events well, explaining the various impact factors that lead to purchase intention of athletic team merchandise among spor...

Maximal isometric handgrip strength (HGS) is used as an indicator of overall muscular and has also been found to be predictive certain athletic events sporting prowess. Women’s artistic gymnastics requires athletes have high levels relative power successful. This study examined the relationship between HGS performance scores for 4 vault, uneven bars, beam, floor in female collegiate gymnasts. T...

Historical events have produced an ideologically charged atmosphere in the USA surrounding the potential influences of innate variation on athletic performance. We tested the hypothesis that scientific studies of the role of innate variation in athletic performance were less likely to have authors with USA addresses than addresses elsewhere because of this cultural milieu. Using scientometric d...

We investigated knee functions and a return to sports in 50 competitive athlete patients treated with arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using double-looped STG augmented by woven polyester at a 1-year follow-up. There were 25 males and 25 females with a mean age of 24.3 years (range: 19-39 years). The majority of preinjury sports were basketball, volleyball and soccer. Athl...

Objective: We present a case of a femoral stress fracture in a male Division I basketball player. Background: During post-season conditioning, the athlete (21 years, 200 cm, 102.3 kg) presented to the team physician with anterior mid-thigh pain. He reported intense pain that had progressively increased a month before he sought medical advice. The athlete indicated that the pain had spread from ...