Sports Medicine News

Among post-menarchal soccer players, investigators found a correlation between low normalized knee separation during drop-jump testing and an increased chance of lower extremity and knee injuries, according to study results.

Results from this prospective study indicated 15 years after ACL reconstruction in patients aged 18 years and younger, the survival rate was 83% for the ACL graft and 81% for the contralateral ACL. The study also linked family history of graft rupture to a significantly increased risk of graft rupture.

WASHINGTON — A new regimen, called CoMMPlete, effectively reduced acne among a cohort of student athletes, according to data presented at the 2016 American Academy of Dermatology annual meeting.

Findings from this study showed after an ACL rupture it was possible to return to preinjury performance or even higher and age is a high indicator for postoperative recovery.

Recently published results that evaluated high school and collegiate football players during the preseason highlighted lower Star Excursion Balance Test scores for anterior reach as a predictor of lateral ankle sprains and noted players who had these injuries had a significantly higher BMI.

Children who played soccer had a relatively high proportion of fractures and bone stress, as well as injuries to the upper limbs, according to results.

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center’s Rusk Rehabilitation recently published a study that showed vision test times for possible concussions were significantly slower for healthy study participants who were non-native English speakers compared with participants who spoke English as their native language.

Pivoting sports involvement at the time of injury, abnormal lateral posterior-inferior tibial slope, anterolateral capsular ligament disruptions and combined lateral meniscal lesions were predictors of grade 3 pivot shift for acute ACL injuries, according to results.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Pitch velocity, the mean velocity of pitches and pitcher BMI were predictors of ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction among major league baseball pitchers, according to a study presented here. “These high-velocity pitchers should be considered targets for planned [safety and precautionary] efforts in the future,” Peter N. Chalmers, MD, said in his presentation here at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.

Skeletally immature children with primary lateral patellar dislocations have a greater chance of sustaining medial patellofemoral ligament injuries at the patellar attachment site, according to results of this MRI and arthroscopic study.