Study Tracks Long-Term Outcomes of Hip Arthroscopy in Football Athletes
A retrospective study of high school and collegiate football players found that 91 percent of those attempting to play again ...
Tag: Sports Medicine
Modified Razor Curl and Nordic Exercises Improve Male Football Players’ Strength
A six-week study of 45 licensed male football players found that both modified razor curl and nordic hamstring exercise protocols ...
Digital Handgrip Dynamometers Show High Reliability but Limited Interchangeability in Adult Testing
A study evaluating three digital handgrip dynamometers in healthy adults found excellent test-retest reliability but systematic force differences that limit ...
Nearly a Quarter of Elite Youth Handball Players Report Overuse Shoulder Problems
A prospective study tracking 660 elite youth handball players found that 22.4 percent reported overuse shoulder symptoms during a single ...
Athletes Fear CTE. Doctors Still Cannot Diagnose It While They Are Alive
A new Current Opinion article explains why chronic traumatic encephalopathy cannot be diagnosed during life and how clinicians can still ...
Plyometric Jump Training Boosts Jump, Sprint and Agility Performance in Adult Female Team-Sport Athletes
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 31 studies found that plyometric jump training significantly improved countermovement jump, drop jump, sprint ...
New Exertional Test Flags Concussion Recovery Early in University Athletes
A four-stage exertional test requiring no specialized equipment distinguished concussed university athletes from healthy peers through symptom provocation and identified ...
Simple notch check guides ACL graft tunnel within a millimetre on 3D imaging
A notch-referenced intraoperative check placed ACL tibial tunnels within about one millimetre of the native footprint on 3D imaging in ...
Proprioceptive Training Linked to About a Third Fewer Ankle Injuries in Athletes
A meta-analysis of fifteen randomized trials found proprioceptive training was associated with about 34% fewer ankle injuries in athletes, with ...
Running habits linked to knee status in recreational runners, cross-sectional study finds
A cross-sectional study of 423 recreational runners in Changsha links weekly running frequency, warm-up habits, full-marathon participation, prior knee or ...
Injuries rise with age in female artistic swimmers, prospective study finds
A prospective study of 390 female artistic swimmers found injury incidence and days lost both rose with age, with non-contact ...
Preseason Strength Imbalance Linked to Hamstring Injuries in Professional Rugby Players
A prospective cohort study of 134 French Top 14 rugby players found that those with a preseason isokinetic strength imbalance ...
Two-thirds of painful training weeks in track-and-field athletes go unlabelled as injuries
A 23-week study of 96 Italian track-and-field athletes found that 67.6 percent of weeks with reported musculoskeletal pain were not ...
Contact sports linked to dementia risk before age 65, review finds, but evidence remains thin
A narrative systematic review of eight studies suggests NFL players may face elevated risk of dementia at younger ages, while ...
Cold-Water Immersion Eases Post-Exercise Soreness, but Evidence Review Reveals Redundant Research and Uneven Benefits
An umbrella review of 14 systematic reviews finds cold-water immersion most consistently reduces self-reported post-exercise muscle soreness, but finds evidence ...
Musculoskeletal shear-wave elastography in the paediatric population: a systematic review
A systematic review of 67 studies involving 2,558 children found that shear-wave elastography shows promise for assessing and monitoring musculoskeletal ...
Stiff Necks Raise Injury Risk for Baseball Pitchers, UConn Study Finds
A University of Connecticut study of 126 college pitchers found that reduced preseason neck mobility predicts arm problems, pitching-related shoulder ...
Heel Striking and the 180 Rule: How Running Form Dogma Took Hold
A new narrative review in Sports Medicine dismantles three enduring running form beliefs: that heel striking is inherently harmful, that ...
Training the Weaker Leg First: New Review Weighs the Science of Fixing Limb Imbalances in Athletes
A new systematic review of eleven studies finds that training interventions targeting an athlete's weaker leg, such as starting sets ...
AI Turns an Ordinary Tablet Camera Into a Precise Balance Test Scorer
A camera-based AI system running on an ordinary tablet scored the Balance Error Scoring System more consistently than real-time human ...
