OBJECTIVES To establish how sport, and access to an athletic identity, has been used when adjusting to a spinal cord injury. DESIGN Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. SETTING Private athletic club. PARTICIPANTS Eight (six males and two females) athletes from a wheelchair badminton club participated in the study. The individuals had finished rehabilitation, and were aged b...

OBJECTIVE To provide certified athletic trainers, physicians, and other health care professionals with recommendations on best practices for the prevention of overuse sports injuries in pediatric athletes (aged 6-18 years). BACKGROUND Participation in sports by the pediatric population has grown tremendously over the years. Although the health benefits of participation in competitive and recr...

This study examined interrelationships among athletic identity, sport participation, and psychological adjustment in a sample of people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Participants (N = 1,034) completed measures of athletic identity, life satisfaction, anxiety, depression, and demographic and sport participation variables. Current amount of weekly sport participation was positively related to at...

BACKGROUND The ability to predict injury is difficult. Prior injury is the only risk factor that has been reported consistently in multiple research studies. Convenient and easy to perform, physical performance tests (PPTs) have great allure as prognostic factors. METHODS 11 PPTs were issued to 359 participants over the course of three seasons of National Collegiate Athletic Association Divis...

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...

Low back pain is an extremely common entity in the general population. Athletes are no different in their affliction for suffering low back pain and injuries, particularly in sports that carry specific low back demands. Whilst traditionally low back pain in the non-athletic population has been thought of in terms of being acute or chronic in nature, recent longterm epidemiological studies have ...

BACKGROUND Standardized assessment of sports injuries provides not only important epidemiological information, but also directions for injury prevention, and the opportunity for monitoring long-term changes in the frequency and characteristics of injury. PURPOSE Development and implementation of an easy to use injury-reporting system to analyze the incidence, circumstances and characteristics...

CONTEXT Groin pain is a common entity in athletes involved in sports that require acute cutting, pivoting, or kicking such as soccer and ice hockey. Athletic pubalgia is increasingly recognized as a common cause of chronic groin and adductor pain in athletes. It is considered an overuse injury predisposing to disruption of the rectus tendon insertion to the pubis and weakness of the posterior i...

OBJECTIVE To establish injury profile of collegiate rugby union in the USA. DESIGN/ SETTING: 31 men's and 38 women's collegiate rugby union teams prospectively recorded injuries during games and practice during the 2005-06 season. Three teams withdrew before data collection. An injury was defined as one: (1) occurring in an organised intercollegiate game or practice; and (2) requiring medical a...