Volleyball
Ira Glick, Danielle Kamis, Todd Stull in The ISSP Manual of Sports Psychiatry, 2018
Schafle, Requa, Patton, and Garrick’s (1990) study of elite collegiate women volleyball players and coaches reported on injuries sustained in the 1987 United States Volleyball Association’s national tournament. The 1520 participants reported 154 injuries over 7812 hours of play. The injury rate was 1.97/100 hours of play, and were all musculoskeletal. Moreover, the study revealed 14 reported concussions, and 4 of the 6 starting players from one team sustained concussion injuries in a single season. In addition to the dramatic increase in concussions, mental-health issues were significant. These included attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bulimia, substance use disorders, anxiety and depression. Volleyball, while not considered a contact sport, is still energetic, requiring ballistic actions, and hence leads to a variety of injuries. Common volleyball injuries include: (a) ankle sprain; (b) shoulder overuse injury; (c) patella tendinopathy; and (d) anterior cruciate ligament injury (James, Kelly, & Beckman, 2014). As one example, volleyball movements often require whole body coordination, with abduction and extra rotation of the arm coupled with extension then flexion. This motion has been described as reducing the size of the quadrilateral space in the axilla, which subsequently compresses the circumflex nerve (Paladini, Dellantonio, Cinti, & Angeleri, 1996). Paladini and colleagues describe two professional volleyball players with well-developed muscles in the shoulder girdle and arm who developed axillary neuropathy of the circumflex nerve on the dominant side.
Leg Pain
Benjamin Apichai in Chinese Medicine for Lower Body Pain, 2021
Begin by obtaining the patient’s medical history: The history of the mechanism of injury, inversion, or eversion. A plantar flexion/inversion injury may indicate damage to the lateral ligament; a dorsiflexion/eversion injury may indicate damage to the medial ligament. Also, how the spraining occurred, whether from jumping, running, or hiking, or from other accidents.History of ankle sprain. For example, if the same ankle was sprained in the past and was not properly rehabilitated, this may give us an idea as to whether the ankle was unstable and vulnerable to this injury.
Foot and ankle disorders
Maneesh Bhatia, Tim Jennings in An Orthopaedics Guide for Today's GP, 2017
Unfortunately, the diagnosis of Achilles rupture could be delayed or missed leading to litigation. There are several reasons for a missed diagnosis. The initial pain following Achilles rupture settles within the first few days after injury. The patient might not therefore present immediately. Sometimes, the patient self-diagnoses this as an ankle sprain. I have seen cases where the initial injury happened when the patient was abroad and presented after some time to his or her GP. Diagnosing this injury after a while can be challenging due to swelling and hematoma, which can mask the gap. In my view, the most common reason of missing this injury is due to the fact that the diagnosis of Achilles rupture has not crossed the mind of the examiner. Sometimes, the diagnosis might have been considered, but as the patient was able to move foot up and down, the diagnosis of ruptured Achilles was excluded. Remember that the patient would be able to plantar flex the foot in the presence of Achilles rupture as the other plantar flexors (tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum and flexor hallucis longus [FHL]) are functioning.
Active ankle position sense and single-leg balance in runners versus non-runners
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2021
Brian Huynh, Ryan Tacker, You-Jou Hung
Ankle sprain is one of the most common orthopedic injuries. Based on the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System data base, an estimated 3,140,132 ankle sprains occurred in the United States between 2002 and 2006 (Waterman et al., 2010). Ankle sprain is also very common in collegiate athletes of various sports, accounting for 15–45% of all sport related injuries (Farrer, Franck, Paillard, and Jeannerod, 2003; Francis et al., 2019; Hootman, Dick, and Agel, 2007; Kannus and Renstrom, 1991). Ankle sprains often occur due to an acute trauma (e.g. landing on an uneven surface with one foot), resulting in compromised structural and functional integrity of the tissues surrounding the ankle joint. After an injury, impaired mechanical restraints and muscle weakness may be present at the ankle joint. Moreover, overstretched ligaments and joint capsules can compromise ankle position sense with less sensitive mechanoreceptors and further hamper ankle stability (Akbari, Karimi, Farahini, and Faghihzadeh, 2006; Arnold, De La Motte, Linens, and Ross, 2009; de Noronha, Refshauge, Kilbreath, and Crosbie, 2007; Freeman, Dean, and Hanham, 1965; Fu and Hui-Chan, 2005; Hung, 2015). Without effective ankle position sense, individuals may not be able to position the ankle joint in a stable position prior to an impact or respond to external perturbations in a timely fashion. As a result, about 73% of the individuals who have sprained their ankles before are likely to experience recurrent injuries and ankle instability (Hung, 2015; Yeung, Chan, So, and Yuan, 1994Yeung, Chan, and So).
Cross cultural adaptation, reliability, and validity of the Greek version of the Cumberland Ankle Instability Tool
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2021
Maria Tsekoura, Evdokia Billis, Konstantinos Fousekis, Anna Christakou, Elias Tsepis
Ankle sprain is one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries (Doherty et al., 2014), occurring both in sport and in everyday activities (Cruz-Diaz et al, 2013; Fong et al, 2009). Ankle inversion injuries correspond to 25% of all musculoskeletal injuries and to 50% of all sports-related injuries (Czajka, Tran, Cai, and DiPreta, 2014) leading to symptoms of pain, swelling, loss of function and significant disability (Ko, Rosen, and Brown, 2015). Chronic ankle instability is also one of the most common problems following an ankle sprain (Hadadi et al, 2017). Approximately 30% of ankle sprains can potentially develop chronic ankle instability and up to 78% of patients with chronic instability are likely to develop post-traumatic ankle osteoarthritis (Wikstrom, Hubbard-Turner, and McKeon, 2013).
Injury, illness, and medication use surveillance during the 2020 COSAFA Women’s championship: a prospective cohort study of football players from Southern Africa
Published in Science and Medicine in Football, 2023
Nonhlanhla S. Mkumbuzi, Senanile B. Dlamini, Fidelis Chibhabha, Fredrick M. Govere
Most injuries (n = 55, 87%) were caused by contact with another player. Further, the majority of the injuries (n = 57; 90%) were a result of acute trauma, four (6.3%) were overuse injuries and two (3.2%) were recorded as both overuse and traumatic injuries. The injuries most commonly involved the lower extremity (n = 43; 68%), followed by injuries of the head and neck (n = 11, 18%), upper limb (n = 7, 11%) and trunk (n = 1, 1.6%). Ligament sprains (n = 26, 41%) were the most frequent type of injury, followed by contusions (n = 21, 33%) and muscle strains (n = 5, 7.9%). The most common diagnosis was an ankle sprain (Table 1). Slightly more than half of the match injuries (n = 24, 56%) were sustained during the second half of the match and 22% (n = 14) were a result of foul play as indicated by the award of a free kick, red, or yellow card.
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