Student Blog by Anton Beka (5th year medical student, King’s College London) with Federico Ghio (Chief Executive Officer – I-Help Medical) & Dr Luca Carenzo (IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital) During my elective placement with I-Help in Livigno, Italy, I spent two weeks with a ski patrol rescue team working in a busy alpine resort. It […]
Tag: injury
AMI post TKA: Why arthrogenic muscle inhibition should be a primary rehabilitation target following knee osteoarthritis and knee replacement
Author: Dr. Georgios Kakavas, on behalf of the author team. Clinicians regularly encounter patients whose post-operative X-rays are unremarkable yet who have satisfactory postoperative results and improved range of motion. However, weeks or months later, these patients are unable to achieve full knee extension, experience difficulty activating the leg during stair ascent, and demonstrate persistent […]
Situational characteristics of muscle strains in sport
In this blog, we outline and discuss the underlying injury patterns of muscle strains in sport. Our recent study, published in BJSM, included data from 21 studies reporting on real-world injury events by using video footage of 728 muscle strains [1]. Why is this study important? Muscle strains are among the most common injuries in sports, […]
Apophyseal Injuries in Academy Football: Insights from 16,000 Player-Seasons
Blog authors: Chelsea Oxendale, Matthew Green, Keith Stokes, Sean Cumming, Gemma Nicole Parry, Sean Williams In this blog, we provide insights from our latest article published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (available here), where we examined over 16,000 player-seasons from Premier League and Category One Academies to understand how apophyseal (growth-related) injuries vary […]
Return to sport after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair: epidemiology and prognostic factors in a Swiss multi-centre cohort
Keywords: return to sport; rotator cuff repair; shoulder surgery outcome Why is this study important? Return to sport (RTS) is a key expectation for physically active patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (ARCR) (1). Previous studies analysing the outcome of RTS have focused on a narrow subgroup of patients (2-5) and only limited epidemiological data […]
Rethinking injury risk: Why injury prevention in sport needs a gender-and sex-specific lens
For female/woman/girl athletes social, cultural and environment factors, alongside biological factors, may shape how injuries happen. This blog summarises a recent study that asked experts what could influence injury risk [1]. The study informed part of the International Olympic Committee Female, woman, and girl Athlete Injury pRrevention (FAIR) Consensus recommendationsm [2] on changes that could […]
Dissemination and implementation of injury prevention interventions in female/woman/girl athletes – how are they implemented and what affects their use?
Rapidly increasing sport participation among female, woman, and girl athletes is mirrored by concerning increases in injury burden. Evidence-based injury prevention interventions can reduce injury (1-4), but getting these into routine practice remains challenging. A recent scoping review (5) examined how well injury prevention interventions are used in female/woman/girls’ sport, and which dissemination and implementation […]
Everything you “kneed” to know about the highest burden match injury in professional men’s rugby union
Authors: Stephen W West, Sam J Hudson, Lindsay Starling, Matthew Cross, Sean Williams, Carly D McKay, Dario Cazzola, John H M Brooks, Rory Murray, Andy Williams, Simon P T Kemp, Keith A Stokes Why is this study important? Knee injuries are the highest burden match injury location in professional rugby, as they are both common and severe (1), and consequently can lead to long recovery times, […]
Female, Woman and Girl Athletes Lower Extremity Injury Risk – Separating Fact from Fiction
Over 60% of female/woman/girl athlete injuries involve the lower-extremity (e.g., groin, hip, thigh, knee, calf, ankle, foot) (1). These injuries disrupt training and competition, increase recurrent injury risk, and can have long-term health consequences. To reduce these injuries, medical and performance teams are often encouraged to target ‘modifiable risk factors’ such as biomechanics, movement patterns, […]
Upper extremity injuries in female, woman, and girl athletes: What we know, what we don’t, and what clinicians can do now.
Upper extremity injuries are common in many sports, yet the evidence guiding how to prevent them in female, woman, and girl (female/woman/girl hereafter) athletes is surprisingly scarce. We recently conducted a systematic review to identify which prevention strategies work, and which modifiable risk factors might contribute to these injuries in female/woman/girl athletes (1). Our findings […]