Lower Extremity Review
Stochastic resonance stimulation (SRS) more effectively improves balance in patients with functional ankle instability (FAI) when optimized based on each patient’s sensory threshold than when all patients receive the same treatment, according to research from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
The biomechanical differences between barefoot running and running in minimalist shoes appear to amount to more than just a matter of time.
Changes in landing mechanics that are intended to decrease risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury may also inadvertently decrease jumping performance in athletes, according to research presented in late May at the annual ACSM meeting.
One to five years after partial medial meniscectomy, young adults demonstrate kinetic alterations associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to research presented in late May at the annual ACSM meeting.
A small study points to a “decoupling” effect between neurological and mechanical aspects of the ankle joint among some people with recurrent sprains and resultant functional ankle instability (FAI), reported investigators in a Journal of Sport Rehabilitation paper e-published on April 9.
Women who run barefoot with a midfoot or forefoot strike pattern have higher Achilles tendon (AT) loads—and, potentially, a higher risk of tendinopathy—than rearfoot strikers, according to research e-published May 3 in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.
College athletes who sustain a concussion are almost four times as likely as their counterparts who avoid the brain injury to subsequently injure lower extremity muscles, according to research presented at the 2013 American Medical Society for Sports Medicine conference held in April in San Diego.
Jones and proximal diaphyseal fifth metatarsal fractures are common among football players and may shorten their athletic careers, according to a February study that found players with fractures were significantly more likely than players without the injuries to have played in fewer than 10 National Football League (NFL) games.
Investigators at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, reported that runners who transitioned from traditional running shoes to zero-drop shoes meant to mimic barefoot running had evidence of bone marrow edema, a marker for stress on the foot, after gradual transition from conventional to minimalist shoes.
The highest knee injury rates in US high school sports are associated with football, followed by girl’s soccer and gymnastics, according to an epidemiological study from The Ohio State University in Columbus and Colorado State University in Aurora.
A lack of confidence and fear of reinjury after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is keeping some athletes from returning to play, according to several abstracts presented last month at the American Physical Therapy Association’s 2013 Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) in San Diego.
A recent study done at the University of Melbourne in Australia supports the theory that, in runners with Achilles tendinopathy (AT), altered neuromotor recruitment patterns of the triceps surae create differential intratendinous loads that lead to pathology.
Ankle bracing and taping have a limited ability to restrict ankle range of motion (ROM) and improve proprioceptive capability under soccer-specific conditions, according to a small study e-published by the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation in January.
The sports medicine community is demonstrating increasing interest in the possibility that neurocognitive impairment and musculoskeletal injury may be related, as evidenced most recently by an exchange in the letter to the editor section of the September issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM).
Running a marathon does not significantly affect Achilles tendon stiffness, suggesting that overuse may not explain Achilles ruptures in runners, according to a Finnish study published in the October issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology.
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