Nearly 40% of adolescent athletes report anterior knee pain regardless of maturation status, age, sex or sport played
Autor: | Ebonie Rio, Sean I Docking, Suzi Edwards, Jill Cook, Meaghan Harris, Madeline Claire Hannington, Christian Bonello, Sebastiano Cencini |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Basketball Adolescent Visual analogue scale Provocation test Prevalence Pain Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Squat Football 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 030222 orthopedics biology business.industry Athletes Australia 030229 sport sciences General Medicine biology.organism_classification Volleyball Cross-Sectional Studies Cohort Physical therapy Female business human activities |
Zdroj: | Physical therapy in sport : official journal of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports Medicine. 51 |
ISSN: | 1873-1600 |
Popis: | Objective To report point prevalence of anterior knee pain (AKP) in adolescent athletes by (1) maturation status, (2) chronological age, (3) sex, and (4) primary sport. Design Cross-sectional. Methods Male and female participants aged 11–15 years were recruited from specialised sports programs for basketball, volleyball, Australian Rules Football and tennis. Standing height, sitting height, and body mass were measured and used to calculate maturity status. Past injury history, self-reported physical activity, and Victorian Institute of Sport Assessment Questionnaire Patellar Tendon (VISA-P) questionnaires were completed. Anterior knee pain was defined as any pain experienced on the anterior surface of the knee and recorded using a visual analogue scale (VAS). A single leg decline squat (SLDS) was performed for provocation of AKP. Results Two hundred and seventeen male and female adolescent athletes participated in this study. Twenty participants were excluded from data analysis. Point prevalence of AKP was 39% (N = 76). Average self-reported physical activity/week was 7.9 ± 4.1 h of their specialised sport and 2.0 ± 2.0 h of other physical activity/week. Maturation status, chronological age, sex nor primary sporting program was statistically significant in explaining the presence or absence of AKP. Conclusion Due to the right-skewed maturation sample, the authors cannot state conclusively that maturation status was not associated with AKP. Nearly 40% of this cohort reported AKP during a pain provocation test. The presence of AKP was not explained by maturation status, age, sex or primary sport program. Given the chronic nature of AKP and future morbidity reported, this high prevalence provides rationale for intervention or prevention studies targeting younger athletes. |
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