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Retear of anterior cruciate ligament grafts in female basketball players: a case series

Incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in young female basketball players is higher than that in male basketball players. Graft retears are more frequent with the increasing number of ACL recon...

Authors: Yoshinari Tanaka, Yasukazu Yonetani, Yoshiki Shiozaki, Takuya Kitaguchi, Nozomi Sato, Shinya Takeshita and Shuji Horibe

A displaced stress fracture of the femoral neck in an adolescent female distance runner with female athlete triad: A case report

This report presents a case of a displaced stress fracture of the femoral neck in an adolescent female distance runner with amenorrhea. Both reduction and internal fixation were performed early after the injur...

Authors: Shinichi Okamoto, Yuji Arai, Kunio Hara, Takashi Tsuzihara and Toshikazu Kubo

The effect of an external magnetic force on cell adhesion and proliferation of magnetically labeled mesenchymal stem cells

As the strategy for tissue regeneration using mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for transplantation, it is necessary that MSCs be accumulated and kept in the target area. To accumulate MSCs effectively, we develop...

Authors: Toshio Nakamae, Nobuo Adachi, Takaaki Kobayashi, Yoshihiko Nagata, Tomoyuki Nakasa, Nobuhiro Tanaka and Mitsuo Ochi

Management of Tennis Elbow with sodium hyaluronate periarticular injections

To determine the efficacy and safety of peri-articular hyaluronic acid injections in chronic lateral epicondylosis (tennis elbow).

Authors: Robert J Petrella, Anthony Cogliano, Joseph Decaria, Naem Mohamed and Robert Lee

Pattern and management of sports injuries presented by Lagos state athletes at the 16^thNational Sports Festival (KADA games 2009) in Nigeria

There is a dearth of information on the epidemiology of sports injuries in Nigeria. The study was aimed at documenting sports injuries sustained by Lagos state athletes during the 16^th National Sports Festival (K...

Authors: Oluwatoyosi BA Owoeye

Clinical and arthroscopic findings in recreationally active patients

To examine the diagnostic accuracy of standard clinical tests for the shoulder in recreational athletes with activity related pain.

Authors: Elizabeth M Fowler, Ian G Horsley and Christer G Rolf

Anatomical significance of a posterior horn of medial meniscus: the relationship between its radial tear and cartilage degradation of joint surface

Traumatic injury and surgical meniscectomy of a medial meniscus are known to cause subsequent knee osteoarthritis. However, the difference in the prevalence of osteoarthritis caused by the individual type of t...

Authors: Akinori Kan, Midori Oshida, Shigemi Oshida, Masato Imada, Takumi Nakagawa and Shuji Okinaga

Traumatic fracture-dislocation of the hip following rugby tackle: a case report

Posterior fracture-dislocation of hip is uncommonly encountered in rugby injuries. We report such a case in an adult while playing rugby. The treating orthopaedician can be caught unaware and injuries in such ...

Authors: Santosh Venkatachalam, Nima Heidari and Tony Greer

Time dependence of changes of two cartilage layers in anterior cruciate ligament insertion after resection on chondrocyte apoptosis and decrease in glycosaminoglycan

The purpose of this study is to clarify the differences in time-dependent histological changes (chondrocyte apoptosis and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) layer thickness decrease) between uncalcified fibrocartilage (U...

Authors: Masataka Sakane, Hirotaka Mutsuzaki, Shinya Hattori, Hiromi Nakajima and Naoyuki Ochiai

Sagittal realignment osteotomy for increased posterior tibial slope after opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy: a case report

A 40 year old welder who underwent opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy for correction of alignment in a varus knee developed persistent pain with loss of knee extension. The posterior tibial slope increased fr...

Authors: Yuka Kimura, Yasuyuki Ishibashi, Eiichi Tsuda, Akira Fukuda and Harehiko Tsukada

Intraosseous ganglion in the subchondral region of the lateral femoral condyle in an 11-year-old girl: a case report

We report the case of a patient with intraosseous ganglion in the lateral femoral condyle. An 11-year-old girl presented with right knee pain following a twisting injury. Plain radiographs of the knee showed a...

Authors: Hiroshi Nakayama, Masayoshi Yagi and Shinichi Yoshiya

Lower trunk kinematics and muscle activity during different types of tennis serves

To better understand the underlying mechanisms involved in trunk motion during a tennis serve, this study aimed to examine the (1) relative motion of the middle and lower trunk and (2) lower trunk muscle activ...

Authors: John W Chow, Soo-An Park and Mark D Tillman

Anti-inflammatory management for tendon injuries - friends or foes?

Acute and chronic tendon injuries are very common among athletes and in sedentary population. Most physicians prescribe anti-inflammatory managements to relieve the worst symptoms of swelling and pain, includi...

Authors: Kai-Ming Chan and Sai-Chuen Fu

Between-day reliability of electromechanical delay of selected neck muscles during performance of maximal isometric efforts

The purpose of this study was to assess the between-day reliability of the electromechanical delay (EMD) of selected neck muscles during the performance of maximal isometric contractions in five different dire...

Authors: Sivan Almosnino, Lucie Pelland, Samuel V Pedlow and Joan M Stevenson

Graft healing in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Successful anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with a tendon graft necessitates solid healing of the tendon graft in the bone tunnel. Improvement of graft healing to bone is crucial for facilitating an e...

Authors: Chih-Hwa Chen

Knee stability assessment on anterior cruciate ligament injury: Clinical and biomechanical approaches

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is common in knee joint accounting for 40% of sports injury. ACL injury leads to knee instability, therefore, understanding knee stability assessments would be useful fo...

Authors: Mak-Ham Lam, Daniel TP Fong, Patrick SH Yung, Eric PY Ho, Wood-Yee Chan and Kai-Ming Chan

The free moment in walking and its change with foot rotation angle

This investigation characterized the time-history pattern of the free moment (FM) during walking and, additionally, assessed whether walking with either an internally or externally rotated foot position altere...

Authors: Sivan Almosnino, Tara Kajaks and Patrick A Costigan

Partial isolated rupture of the popliteus tendon in a professional soccer player: a case report

The complete isolated rupture of the popliteus tendon has been described as a rare injury and this report describes the case of a 31-year-old soccer player who sustained a partial rupture of the popliteus tend...

Authors: Pier Paolo Mariani and Fabrizio Margheritini

Medial patellofemoral ligament injury patterns and associated pathology in lateral patella dislocation: an MRI study

Lateral Patella dislocations are common injuries seen in the active and young adult populations. Our study focus was to evaluate medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) injury patterns and associated knee pathol...

Authors: Patrick Guerrero, Xinning Li, Ketan Patel, Michael Brown and Brian Busconi

The relation between athletic sports and prevalence of amenorrhea and oligomenorrhea in Iranian female athletes

In 1992, the concept of female athlete triad was introduced to describe the interrelated problems of amenorrhea, eating disorders and osteoporosis seen in female athletes. To gain a clearer picture of amenorrh...

Authors: Haleh Dadgostar, Mohammad Razi, Ashraf Aleyasin, Talia Alenabi and Saeideh Dahaghin

Iliotibial band release as an adjunct to the surgical management of patellar stress fracture in the athlete: a case report and review of the literature

Stress fracture of the patella is rare. In this report, a case of patellar stress fracture occurring in an amateur athlete is presented, and an operative adjunct to the surgical management of this condition is...

Authors: Anthony Keeley, Paul Bloomfield, Peter Cairns and Robert Molnar

Understanding acute ankle ligamentous sprain injury in sports

This paper summarizes the current understanding on acute ankle sprain injury, which is the most common acute sport trauma, accounting for about 14% of all sport-related injuries. Among, 80% are ligamentous spr...

Authors: Daniel TP Fong, Yue-Yan Chan, Kam-Ming Mok, Patrick SH Yung and Kai-Ming Chan

Challenging for cartilage repair

Authors: Mitsuo Ochi

Multidirectional instability of the shoulder – current concept

A guest editorial on the multidirectional instability of the shoulder

Authors: Seung-Ho Kim

The relationship between lower extremity alignment and Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome among non-professional athletes

To determine the relationship between lower extremity alignment and MTSS amongst non-professional athletes

Authors: Golam Reza D Raissi, Afsaneh D Safar Cherati, Kourosh D Mansoori and Mohammad D Razi

Electromyographic analysis of selected shoulder muscles during a rugby football tackle

Epidemiological studies have shown that the incidence of shoulder injuries is increasing in rugby and the majority are related to the contact/tackle phase of play. However, no data currently exists that descri...

Authors: Lee Herrington and Ian Horsley

Role of biomechanics in the understanding of normal, injured, and healing ligaments and tendons

Ligaments and tendons are soft connective tissues which serve essential roles for biomechanical function of the musculoskeletal system by stabilizing and guiding the motion of diarthrodial joints. Nevertheless...

Authors: Ho-Joong Jung, Matthew B Fisher and Savio L-Y Woo

Impact of movement training on upper limb motor strategies in persons with shoulder impingement syndrome

Movement deficits, such as changes in the magnitude of scapulohumeral and scapulathoracic muscle activations or perturbations in the kinematics of the glenohumeral, sternoclavicular and scapulothoracic joints,...

Authors: Jean-Sébastien Roy, Hélène Moffet, Bradford J McFadyen and Richard Lirette

Needle guide in shoulder arthroscopy – a technique

Distension of joint with fluid is often used to facilitate insertion of arthroscope. This may prove difficult at times in the shoulder joint, as unlike the knee, it is deeply situated, making extravasation of ...

Authors: Sujith Sidharthan, Aloysius N Mbako and James R Wootton

Synovial chondromatosis originating from the synovium of the anterior cruciate ligament: a case report

A case of synovial chondromatosis originating from the synovium of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) resulting in a mechanical block to knee extension is reported. A 36-year-old man complained of a restrict...

Authors: Tokifumi Majima, Tamotsu Kamishima and Kouichi Susuda

A systematic review of the literature on the effectiveness of exercise therapy for groin pain in athletes

Athletes competing in sports that require running, changes in direction, repetitive kicking and physical contact are at a relatively higher risk of experiencing episodes of athletic groin pain. To date, there ...

Authors: Zuzana Machotka, Saravana Kumar and Luke G Perraton

Rotational strength, range of motion, and function in people with unaffected shoulders from various stages of life

Different measurements are used to assess shoulder function, including range of motion, strength, functional performance and self-report function. To understand disablement, it is necessary to understand the r...

Authors: Jean-Sébastien Roy, Joy C MacDermid, Kirsty Usher Boyd, Kenneth J Faber, Darren Drosdowech and George S Athwal

Review of knee arthroscopy performed under local anesthesia

Local anesthesia for knee arthroscopy is a well documented procedure with diagnostic and therapeutic role. Numerous therapeutic procedures including partial menisectomy, meniscus repair, abrasion chondroplasy,...

Authors: Billy Kan-Yip Law, Patrick Shu-Hang Yung, Eric Po-Yan Ho, Joseph Jeremy Hsi-Tse Chang, Grace Ken Kwok, Kwai-Yau Fung and Kai-Ming Chan

The results of arthroscopic anterior stabilisation of the shoulder using the bioknotless anchor system

Shoulder instability is a common condition, particularly affecting a young, active population. Open capsulolabral repair is effective in the majority of cases, however arthroscopic techniques, particularly usi...

Authors: Stephen J Cooke, Ian Starks and Vinod Kathuria

A SMARTTfuture for sports medicine

Authors: Kai-Ming Chan and Masahiro Kurosaka