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Published in John W. Dickinson, James H. Hull, Complete Guide to Respiratory Care in Athletes, 2020
John W. Dickinson, Jon Greenwell, James H. Hull
If the athlete has been given a diagnosis of breathing dysfunction or EILO then again it should be clear who will be involved in co-ordinating the rehabilitation programme. This may include some or all of the wider sports medicine team; doctor, physiotherapist, nutritionist, sports psychologist and coach as well as specialist allied health professionals such as respiratory physiotherapists and speech and language therapists.
Sports medicine and sports injuries
Published in Professor Sir Norman Williams, Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, Professor Andrew W. McCaskie, Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery, 2018
Professor Sir Norman Williams, Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, Professor Andrew W. McCaskie
Regular physical exercise is integral to the body staying healthy. However, stressing the human body to its limits may lead to injury. Sports medicine is the science of understanding how these injuries can be avoided, recognised when they do occur, and then treated appropriately. Sports injuries are, in principle, the same as other injuries. The major difference can be in the expectations of the patients. The injuries can be classified into three broad groups. Acute extrinsic injuries are those which arise from a direct external blow. These are commonly wounds, bruises and fractures. Acute intrinsic injuries result from failure of the patient’s anatomical structures as a result of excessive loading. Examples are tendon ruptures, avulsion fractures and ligament injuries. Chronic injuries are those with an insidious or unknown onset and commonly involve degeneration or failure secondary to repetitive loading. Examples are tendinosis of the Achilles tendon and stress fractures.
Enhancement, doping and the spirit of sport
Published in Silvia Camporesi, Mike McNamee, Bioethics, Genetics and Sport, 2018
Silvia Camporesi, Mike McNamee
Examples of challenges to the therapy/enhancement distinction in sports medicine abound. We discuss one recent example as reported by Hamilton and Dimeo.6 This is the case of cortisol, a steroid that can be prescribed under a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) to facilitate a swifter return to play. Hamilton and Dimeo discuss the case of baseball player Ryan Zimmerman. After injuring his shoulder in the summer of 2012, Zimmerman was able to go from ‘being one of baseball’s worst hitters to one of its best’ thanks, supposedly, to cortisol injections (Hamilton and Dimeo 2015).
Changes in U.S. girls’ participation in high school sports: implications for injury awareness
Published in The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 2021
Miho J. Tanaka, Christa L. LiBrizzi, Dennis W. Rivenburgh, Lynne C. Jones
With increasing opportunities for women to play sports at both the collegiate and professional levels, medical care for the female athlete has become more specialized. Some institutions have developed Women’s Sports Medicine Programs to serve this growing population, with services to address gender-specific injuries and issues in female athletes [4]. However, as it relates to the care of female athletes, the body of knowledge surrounding injuries in women’s sports continues to be scarce. Few reports exist on the changing rates of participation by girls and women in the specific types of sports they play to provide insight into the increasing patterns of injuries seen in females. As expertise in sports medicine requires knowledge of the athlete’s sport as well as the injuries associated with each player’s position, epidemiological studies in sports medicine can improve our understanding of the common injuries that can occur in each sport. This allows physicians to develop and maintain familiarity with injury mechanisms and risks when providing medical care for athletes [5–8].
Injuries and rapid weight loss in elite Korean wrestlers: an epidemiological study
Published in The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 2021
This study had several strengths. First, a large number of wrestlers were observed closely for 10 months (43.5 weeks). Second, the RWL method and the incidence, location, and injury types were analyzed in detail. Third, our study considered the influence of weight class on injuries. Finally, we analyzed the number of injuries depending on subcategories to address new research issues related to other sports medicine fields. Our study had some limitations. We did not have any information regarding injury mechanisms [including the training load and cause of injury]. Our data were obtained from daily injury report forms, and we could not identify microscopic and unreported injuries. We had no information regarding the biomechanical mechanisms of injury. Finally, this is was homogeneous population and may not be generalizable to all wrestlers.
International consensus statement on injury and illness reporting in professional road cycling
Published in The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 2021
Neil Heron, Inigo Sarriegui, Nigel Jones, Rory Nolan
Injury and illness prevention is a major goal for sport medicine and science in order to maximize the athletes’ safe availability for competition. The first part of injury prevention [1,2] is to understand the size of the problem. Expert statements, with agreed definitions of injuries and illness as well as consistent methodology for reporting these studies allow accurate illness and injury data collection. Uniform collection of data for injury epidemiology studies will then allow comparisons between road cycling teams as well as comparisons to and learning from other sports. Additionally, rigorous reporting of illness and injury will inform illness and injury prevention strategies, ensuring safer participation in elite road cycling events, helping protect the health of cyclists.