March 2020 Sports Medicine Journal Roundup
The American Journal of Sports Medicine (Feb 2020)
- – Higher number of pain sites throughout the body was a consistent predictor of poor outcome and less change at 1 year.
- – Baseline levels for anterior knee pain scale and worst pain predicted respective final scores and change scores.
- – This study indicated that the proximally longer fifth metatarsal may cause greater stress at the base of the fifth metatarsal bone because the lever arm becomes long.
- – In addition, high medial longitudinal arch may contribute to increased load on the lateral side of the foot.
- – Large/massive tear size, lower Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey mental component score, and several additional patient and disease-specific factors are associated with baseline PROMs in patients undergoing rotator cuff repair.
- – The injury risk was higher in participants running in the hard shoes compared with those using the soft shoes.
– However, the relative protective effect of greater shoe cushioning was found only in lighter runners
The British Journal of Sports Medicine (Feb 2020)
– Bullying in young, visually impaired athletes is described most commonly in the available literature.
– Due to the limited amount of data, the prevalence of non-accidental harms in Para athletes remains unclear and information on trends over time is similarly unavailable.
– The overall injury incidence of 15.5 injuries per 100 athletes was higher, while the overall illness incidence of 8.4 illnesses per 100 athletes was similar to previous youth and Olympic Games.
– The new sports did not differ significantly compared with the other sports with respect to injury and illness risk.
– PPE according to the Italian model identified a range of diseases in 2.0% of apparently healthy athletes at an average cost of €79
Sports Medicine (Feb 2020)
– Continuous training seems, overall, a better strategy than interval training to reduce the oxygen cost in recreational endurance runners.
– However, oxygen cost reductions are influenced by several variables including the duration of the program, runners’ aerobic capacity, the intervals duration and the volume of interval training per week.
– The use of PA breaks during sitting moderately attenuated post-prandial glucose, insulin, and TAG, with greater glycaemic attenuation in people with higher BMI.