Sport-Related Injury

A 2008 survey of hip injuries in the NFL introduced the “sports hip triad,” consisting of a hip labral tear, adductor injury and rectus abdominis injury.

Since superior labrum lesions were first described in 1985 and the term “SLAP” lesion was coined in 1990, surgeons began to fixate on that region as a pain generator, especially in the overhead athlete population.

Since the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, participation of women in sports has steadily increased.

Higher levels of sports specialization prior to U.S. military service led to an increased risk of lower extremity stress fractures in female cadets, according to results presented at the NATA Virtual Clinical Symposia and AT Expo.

While overall pediatric fracture volume has decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of injuries occurring at home, as well as on bicycles and trampolines, has increased more than 25%, according to published results.

by Matthew B. Panzer, PhD

Hospital for Special Surgery opened a new facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. The facility announced its leadership and medical team, as well as the scheduling of almost 1,000 appointments.

Sports medicine, which focuses on improvement of athletic performances, diagnosis and treatment of injuries in professional and amateur athletes, as well as on the promotion of exercise and physical health in the general population, has become one of the fastest growing health care specialties in the last decades. EFORT is therefore pleased to welcome Freddie H. Fu, MD, DSc(Hon, DPs(Hon), one of the most prominent figures in sports medicine, physical therapy and mechanical engineering for sports, to give the Michael Freeman Honorary Lecture on Friday 11 June 2020.

High school students who reported concussions were at greater risk for a suicide attempt, according to survey findings published in Journal of Affective Disorders.

During the drop-vertical jump assessment in adolescent female athletes, sport specialization correlated with increased variability of hip-and knee-joint couplings needed for effective landing, according to results of this study.