BACKGROUND The popularity of team sports is growing among young people. High training volume and intensity may predispose young athletes to overuse injuries. Research to date has tended to focus on acute injuries rather than overuse injuries. The purpose of this study was to examine the occurrence, nature, and severity of overuse injuries in youth basketball and floorball, with the hypothesis t...

BACKGROUND Triathlon is an increasingly popular sport at both the elite and the recreational level. However, there have been few high-quality studies of injuries and illnesses among triathletes. OBJECTIVE To register overuse problems and acute injuries among iron-distance triathletes throughout a training season leading up to a major event. METHODS A 26-week prospective cohort study was con...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General has issued a report concerning "high use" and "questionable use" ultrasound. Findings include those geographic areas where occurrences are most frequent, as well as the most common elements that characterize questionable use. While not its primary focus, emergency physician performed bedside ultrasound is within th...

Overuse can be defined as the chronic overloading of muscles in daily life activities resulting in physical complaints such as muscle fatigue and pain. Overuse can develop in case of a reduced capacity of muscle to endure loads due to paresis (slight or partial paralysis), but also when normal muscle is chronically overloaded, for instance when a muscle has to compensate for other paretic muscl...

the problems that plainly exist in the NHS. Introducing medical audit, developing better information systems, devolving budgets to doctors whose decisions commit the expenditure of public money, revising the element of cross boundary flows in the RAWP (Resource Allocation Working Party) formula, searching for ways of rewarding rather than penalising productive hospitals, and controlling excessi...

Background Youth soccer injuries are common and of increasing concern, with sport specialization occurring at younger ages. Limited research is available regarding overuse injuries and risk factors in young female athletes. Purpose To identify the number and rate of overuse injuries in female soccer players (ages 12-15 years), describe the anatomic location and type of injury, and evaluate co...

OBJECTIVES To describe and compare both overuse and underuse of diagnostic upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in different settings. DESIGN Merging of data from three prospective observational studies. The appropriateness and necessity of indications for gastroscopy were evaluated using explicit criteria developed by a standardized expert panel method (RAND-UCLA). Inappropriate endoscopies repr...

Background: Overuse of injections is a common problem in many low-income and middle income countries. Whil