OBJECTIVES We sought to determine joint outcomes relative to impact level of athletic participation among school-aged children who had hemophilia and were taking prophylactic factor replacement, as well as to investigate prognostic factors for joint outcomes. METHODS School-aged boys with severe hemophilia A or B at a single center were included in the study. Clinical data on baseline joint s...

CONTEXT Self-reported symptoms (SRS) scales comprise one aspect of a multifaceted assessment of sport-related concussion. Obtaining SRS assessments before a concussion occurs assists in determining when the injury is resolved. However, athletes may present with concussion-related symptoms at baseline. Thus, it is important to evaluate such reports to determine if the variables that are common t...

CONTEXT An estimated 300,000 sport-related traumatic brain injuries, predominantly concussions, occur annually in the United States. Sports are second only to motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of traumatic brain injury among people aged 15 to 24 years. OBJECTIVE To investigate the epidemiology of concussions in a nationally representative sample of high school athletes and to compare...

Teenaged girls constitute the fastest growing segment of children and adolescents participating in organized athletics. Adolescent girls appear to have similar injury rates as boys in comparable activities but different injury patterns. To properly diagnose and manage athletic injuries in adolescent girls, pediatric health care providers must be aware of these differences, especially as the lit...

OBJECTIVE To discuss the role of the sensorimotor system as it relates to functional stability, joint injury, and muscle fatigue of the athletic shoulder and to provide clinicians with the necessary tools for restoring functional stability to the athletic shoulder after injury. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE, SPORT Discus, and CINAHL from 1965 through 1999 using the key words "proprioceptio...

Objective: To evaluate the factorial validity of the Athletic Injury Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (AISEQ) and the predictive relationships among self-efficacy, imagery use, and rehabilitation adherence. Design and Setting: Survey administered in an outpatient physiotherapy clinic. Participants: 270 injured athletes. Main Outcome Measures: AISEQ, Athletic Injury Imagery Questionnaire, and an adhe...

Between September 2007 and December 2009, stress fractures in adolescent athletes were prospectively submitted to an online database by local high-school athletic trainers. For every radiographically confirmed stress fracture, a standardized online form that detailed each athlete’s demographics, fracture pattern, clinical presentation, sport, level of participation, training intensity and dieta...

Injuries to the head and neck are the most frequent catastrophic sports injury, and head injuries are the most common direct athletic cause of death. Although direct compressive forces may injure the brain, neural tissue is particularly susceptible to injury from shearing stresses, which are most likely to occur when rotational forces are applied to the head. The most common athletic head injur...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the rate, type, and severity of dental injuries recorded for intermediate and high school interscholastic athletic participants. DESIGN AND SETTING: A longitudinal study (1988-2003) of intermediate and high school athletes utilizing the same certified athletic trainers to evaluate and record all injury data. SUBJECTS: Sports participation included 123 teams in 19 female,...