Two more articles have appeared reviewing the topic of Femoroacetabular impingement in hockey players, the surgical management and return to play guidelines. These abstracts are available via pubmed. Philippon M, Schenker M, Briggs K, Kuppersmith D. Femoroacetabular impingement in 45 professional athletes: associated pathologies and return to sport following arthroscopic decompression. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2007 Jul;15(7):908-14. Epub 2007 May 4. Bizzini M, Notzli HP, Maffiuletti NA. Femoroacetabular Impingement in Professional Ice Hockey Players: A Case Series of 5 Athletes After Open Surgical Decompression of the Hip. Am J Sports Med. 2007 Jul 3; [Epub ahead of print]
Read more →Let’s compare hockey injuries in men and female hockey players and introduce how this impact physiotherapy and chiropractic treatments for those respective injuries. Two recent publications involving descriptive hockey injury epidemiology of the National Collegiate Athletic Injury Surveillance System have just been released (Men’s Agel et al., Women’s Agel et al.). These studies, followed NCAA Men’s hockey for 16 years and Women’s Hockey for 4 years, reveal some very interesting findings. In Woman’s Hockey: Game injury rates were 5x higher than in practices Pre-season Injury rates were nearly double compared to in-season rates. Concussions were the Most Common Injury in
Read more →During my formal educational training, first in Kinesiology, then Chiropractic College and finally Chiropractic Sports Residency program, I failed to appreciate the intricate structure of the hip joint. It has been only within the last few years that we have begun to truly understand the role of the labrum, impingement syndromes and snapping hip syndromes in the presentations of these diagnostic enigmas. Our traditional elementary orthopedic examination was often limited to Range of motion assessment, FABER test, Ober test, Thomas test and their respective hybrids or modifications. Often this nebulous diagnosis has been classified as a “groin strain”. Sometimes we
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