Showing papers in "Physical Therapy in Sport in 2013"

TL;DR: The 4th International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich, November 2012 was attended by Paul McCrory, Willem H Meeuwisse, Mark Aubry, Jiří Dvořák, Ruben J Echemendia, Lars Engebretsen, Karen Johnston, Jeffrey S Kutcher, Martin Raftery, Allen Sills and Kathryn Schneider.

TL;DR: Investigation of the diagnostic accuracy of clinical and functional tests used to diagnose PFPS through a systematic review found that future diagnostic studies should focus on the sample homogeneity and standardization of tests analyzed to determine with more certainty the accuracy of the tests for diagnosis of PFPS.

TL;DR: In this article, the frontal and sagittal plane ankle kinematics between subjects with chronic ankle instability (CAI) and healthy controls were evaluated while walking and jogging shod on a treadmill.

TL;DR: Key educational theories to illustrate why reflection is important are discussed and elements of the educational tradition of Bildung are discussed to enrich the understanding of self and to facilitate the reader's ability to enhance their professional practice.

TL;DR: A commentary describing a structured return to sport rehabilitation protocol for athletes following ACLR is presented, developed from synthesis of the available literature and consensus of physiotherapists and strength and conditioning coaches based in the home country Institute of Sports within the United Kingdom.

TL;DR: HVIGI with aprotinin significantly reduces pain and improves function in patients with chronic Achilles tendinopathy in the short- and long-term follow up.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that the proposed tuck jump assessment is reliable to identify abnormal landing mechanics and very good-excellent intra-tester and inter-testers reliability for both examiners when comparing their individual scores of the tuckjump test across two analysis sessions.

TL;DR: It may be important for clinicians to implement the rotational squat during rehabilitation for those with CAI, because the CAI group had significantly less Gmax activation than the healthy group during the Rotational squat at the point of maximum excursion.

TL;DR: Visual rating by physiotherapists is a valid tool for identifying young athletes with poor frontal plane dynamic pelvis and knee alignment and differences in kinematics between groups rated as having good versus poor alignment by the experts.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that a neurodynamic sliding technique can increase hamstring flexibility in healthy, male soccer players.

TL;DR: Clinician-oriented outcome measures among uninjured controls, copers, and chronic ankle instability (CAI) groups are compared to detect differences among unin injured controls,Coper and those with CAI.

TL;DR: Taping improved clinical measures in PFPS patients and no differences existed between Spider(®) and McConnell techniques.

TL;DR: Kinematics during the SKB and single leg SKB have moderate to high reliability and are similar to those during a drop jump or running.

TL;DR: 12 weeks of an active stretching program performed 3 days per week with a daily stretch dose of 180 s improved HF-PROM in both populations (normal and limited hamstring flexibility) and was equally effective in terms of absolute improvement values.

TL;DR: The combination treatment reported in this study is feasible and seems to be promising for patients in the late/degenerative phase of patellar tendinopathy.

TL;DR: Injury incidence in amateur soccer players is higher during matches played on artificial turf than during training sessions, and the thigh, knee, and ankle were the most affected regions.

TL;DR: A new paradigm is proposed to assist with clinical diagnosis and non-surgical intervention in patients suffering with AP and the level of evidence supporting this paradigm, according to the SORT taxonomy, is primarily level 2B.

TL;DR: Despite the PTP's effectiveness in inducing some changes in kinematics, the changes were specific for each task, which highlights the importance of the specificity and individuality in selecting prevention injury exercises.

TL;DR: The data suggest that the Romanian deadlift does not enhance lumbar extension torque, however, performing specific isolated lUMX training appears to improve both lumbr extension torque and Romanian deadlifting 1RM.

TL;DR: Although there were no muscular ratio differences between the athletes and the controls, their ratio values were below the literature-recommended reference values to prevent shoulder injuries.

TL;DR: Targeted training using the leg press exercise to the last 45° of knee extension/flexion with vigorous hip adduction may be useful in promoting a greater VMO/VL ratio.

TL;DR: Small increases in knee flexion angle explained trivial differences in patellofemoral and tibiofemoral compressive forces and TibioFemoral shear force may be more sensitive to changes in knee joint angle compared to other knee force components.

TL;DR: Screening and identifying the young scoliotic dancers prior to their advancing to higher levels of exercise is recommended and there might be a connection between the presence of scoliosis and increased incidence of anatomical anomalies and back pain.

TL;DR: Although the symptom scores increased following exercise in both concussed and non-concussed participants, this increase was only maintained for a relatively short duration, so the application to real world situation is still to be established.

TL;DR: With a high strength of recommendation, intra-articular HA injections in animal models with meniscus injury improved the healing process and/or had a Protective role in articular cartilage, a slightly protective role in ACL injury animal models and low or no effect on healing in article cartilage injuryAnimal models.

TL;DR: The results suggest there are several moderate-to-good relationships between increased latissimus dorsi stiffness in swimmers and altered scapular upward rotation, internal rotation, and posterior tilt at various angles of humeral elevation.

TL;DR: Impaired timing perception leads to less accurate performance during rope jumping for ADHD children and poor hand-foot coordination results in poor control of simultaneous movements of the upper and lower limbs during rope jump.

TL;DR: LEDT irradiation applied following high intensity exercise was not effective and has no immediate effect on [La] clearance, peak power and FI, and thus has no significant effect on muscle recovery in athletes at the intensity and irradiation parameters used in the present study.

TL;DR: This study shows a strong positive relationship between bilateral and unilateral stance Q angles which could be represented in a positive linear regression equation and supports findings indicating that when taking up unilateral stance patients with patell ofemoral joint pain demonstrate greater than expected increase in Q angle which could increase loading on the patellofemoral Joint.