purpose taekwondo, as the most popular martial art among iranian sportsmen, might lead to injury for the athletes of this sport during competitions. we decided to report the incidence rate of injuries sustained by the athletes of this sport during national competitions. methods all competitions of iran national championship taekwondo league in 2006-2007 with 204 athletes were observed prospecti...

BACKGROUND The inclusion of clinical practice factors, beyond epidemiologic data, may help guide medical coverage and care decisions. HYPOTHESIS Trends in injury and treatment characteristics of sport-specific injuries sustained by secondary school athletes will differ based on sport. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of electronic patient records. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Level 4. METHODS P...

OBJECTIVE To examine the seasonal distribution of tendon ruptures in a large cohort of patients from Vancouver, Canada. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Acute Achilles tendon rupture cases that occurred from 1987 to 2010 at an academic hospital in Vancouver, Canada. Information was extracted from an orthopaedic database. PARTICIPANTS No direct contact was made with the participa...

Volleyball has become an extremely popular participation sport worldwide. Fortunately, the incidence of serious injury is relatively low. The sport-specific activity most commonly associated with injury is blocking. Ankle sprains are the most common acute injury. Recurrent sprains may be less likely to occur if an ankle orthosis is worn. Patellar tendinitis represents the most common overuse in...

BACKGROUND Wakeboarding is an increasingly popular sport that involves aggressive stunts with high risk for lower extremity injury, including anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture. Little has been reported on prevalence or mechanism of ACL injury while wakeboarding. HYPOTHESIS The prevalence of ACL injury in wakeboarding approaches that of other high-risk sports. Analyzing the mechanism of...

CONTEXT There is increased growth in sports participation across the globe. Sports specialization patterns, which include year-round training, participation on multiple teams of the same sport, and focused participation in a single sport at a young age, are at high levels. The need for this type of early specialized training in young athletes is currently under debate. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION No...

BACKGROUND There is a saying in sport that "injury is just part of the game". In other words, injury in sport is seen as inevitable. OBJECTIVE To examine progress toward reaching the contrary position that "injury prevention is just part of the game". METHODS The four steps of van Mechelen's "sequence of prevention" model provide a structure for examining progress. RESULTS What is known a...

OBJECTIVES To test the assumption that the psychological impact of injury varies with involvement in sport and exercise, and that those who are more involved in sport and exercise before injury would experience greater negative affect and retarded recovery. METHOD Patients attending for physiotherapy completed a battery of questionnaires including measures of mood and perceived recovery, at t...

BACKGROUND Hamstring muscle strains represent a common and disabling athletic injury with variable recurrence rates and prolonged recovery times. OBJECTIVES To present the outcomes of a novel rehabilitation protocol for the treatment of proximal hamstring strains in an intercollegiate sporting population and to determine any significant differences in the rate of reinjury and time to return t...

Santi, G. & Pietrantoni, L. (2013) Psychology of sport injury rehabilitation: a review of models and interventions. J. Hum. Sport Exerc., 8(4), pp. 1029-1044. The aim of this review is to provide the state of the art about the psychology of sport injury rehabilitation by analyzing the most recent literature and research on this field. In the first part, we presented theoretical models contextua...