Sports health

BACKGROUND: Women's participation in all football codes (including Australian Football [AF]) is increasing rapidly. To guide injury prevention strategies, the authors aimed to describe the current and lifetime prevalence of significant musc…

BACKGROUND: Treatment for idiopathic adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder remains controversial. Stages 1 to 2 reflect an inflammatory process supporting a rationale for intra-articular glenohumeral joint corticosteroid injection to treat sy…

CONTEXT: Groin pain is a common entity in athletes involved in sports that require acute cutting, pivoting, or kicking such as soccer and ice hockey. Athletic pubalgia is increasingly recognized as a common cause of chronic groin and adduct…

CONTEXT: The mature athlete's shoulder remains a challenging clinical condition to manage. A normal natural history of the shoulder includes stiffness, rotator cuff tears, and osteoarthritis, all of which can become increasingly more sympto…

ContextLow back pain is a common complaint in athletes. Athletes differ from the general population physiologically, making it unclear if the evaluation of low back pain should differ between these 2 groups.Evidence acquisitionA literature …