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Erik Witvrouw
Researcher at American Physical Therapy Association
Publications - 49
Citations - 7856
Erik Witvrouw is an academic researcher from American Physical Therapy Association. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Athletes. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 39 publications receiving 6902 citations. Previous affiliations of Erik Witvrouw include Ghent University & Qatar Airways.
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Muscle Flexibility as a Risk Factor for Developing Muscle Injuries in Male Professional Soccer Players A Prospective Study
TL;DR: Results indicate that soccer players with an increased tightness of the hamstring or quadriceps muscles have a statistically higher risk for a subsequent musculoskeletal lesion.
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Intrinsic risk factors for the development of anterior knee pain in an athletic population. A two-year prospective study.
TL;DR: The latter four parameters play a dominant role in the genesis of anterior knee pain and are deemed to be risk factors for this syndrome.
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CT imaging of trunk muscles in chronic low back pain patients and healthy control subjects.
TL;DR: A comparative study between unoperated CLBP patients and matched control subjects with regard to muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) and the amount of fat deposits at different levels showed that only the CSA of the multifidus and only at the lowest level was found to be statistically smaller in LBP patients.
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Likelihood of ACL graft rupture: not meeting six clinical discharge criteria before return to sport is associated with a four times greater risk of rupture
TL;DR: Athletes who did not meet the discharge criteria before returning to professional sport had a four times greater risk of sustaining an ACL graft rupture compared with those who met all six RTS criteria.
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2016 Consensus statement on return to sport from the First World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy, Bern
Clare L Ardern,Philip Glasgow,Anthony G. Schneiders,Erik Witvrouw,Benjamin Clarsen,Ann Cools,Boris Gojanovic,Steffan Griffin,Karim M. Khan,Håvard Moksnes,Stephen Mutch,Nicola Phillips,Gustaaf Reurink,Robin Sadler,Karin Grävare Silbernagel,Kristian Thorborg,Arnlaug Wangensteen,Kevin E. Wilk,Mario Bizzini +18 more
TL;DR: This consensus statement was to present and synthesise current evidence to make recommendations for return to sport decision-making, clinical practice and future research directions related to returning athletes to sport.