Hamstring injuries in sport can be debilitating. The anatomical complexity of this muscle makes uniform assessment of injury epidemiology difficult and insures that post-injury management strategies must be individually focused. This article reviews the anatomy of the hamstring, its role in athletic movement, common mechanisms of injury, and management guidelines with the goal of return into sp...

Prevention of injury and illness associated with athletic activity is one of the roles of the team physician (10,15). This process involves understanding the pathophysiology of the injury or illness, evaluating the known risk factors that influence the incidence of injury or illness, implementing interventions to minimize the influence of the risk factors, and recording the outcomes of the inte...

OBJECTIVE To present the case of a talocrural dislocation with a Weber type C fibular fracture in a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I football athlete. BACKGROUND The athlete, while attempting to make a tackle during a game, collided with an opponent, who in turn stepped on the lateral aspect of the athlete's ankle, resulting in forced ankle eversion and external rotation. O...

OBJECTIVES Recent studies have identified rates of injuries in young elite athletes during major athletic events. However, no such data exist on master athletes. The aim of this study was to assess incidence and types of injuries during the 2012 European Veteran Athletics Championships as a function of age, performance and athletic discipline. METHODS Report forms were used to identify injure...

Lateral ankle sprains are one of the most common injuries incurred in recreational and competitive athletics. These injuries have a significant impact in terms of cost, athletic participation, and activities of daily living. Prophylactic ankle braces are often used to reduce the risk of injury recurrence when individuals return to athletic participation. The purpose of this clinical commentary ...

Introduction: This study aimed to review the literature on the role of body composition as arisk factor for injury in an athletic population.Materials and Methods: We searched articles in English in Google Scholar Science direct,PubMed, WOS, Scopus, ProQuest, and Cochrane Library databases without time limit until2020 using keywords rela...

[Purpose] The world of competitive sports has its own unique subculture which at times works towards covering up psychological problems faced by athletes with injuries. The purpose of this study was to develop an "Athletic Injury Psychological Acceptance Scale (AIPAS)" to screen athletes for serious psychological problems resulting from injury. [Subjects] A total of 189 subjects responded to th...

Over the past decade and a half there has been a slow, yet steady introduction of DNS into the world of athletic rehabilitation and performance development. Where implemented the approach has led to a reduction in injury occurrence, decreased recovery time, and increased performance markers. These markers alone have not been sufficient to greatly increase the application of the approach in an a...

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ATHLETIC THERAPY & TRAINING agility, core stability, low back dysfunction, joint alignment, gender, joint mobility, psychosocial stress, and many other factors.2-6 Although evidence exists to support the association of various factors with lower extremity musculoskeletal injury, the relative contributions of individual factors to the multifactorial etiologies of differe...