Characteristic MRI findings of the shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints in elite wheelchair basketball players

Autor: Masafumi Sakai, Hirotaka Mutsuzaki, Yukiyo Shimizu, Yoshikazu Okamoto, Takahito Nakajima
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2052-1847
DOI: 10.1186/s13102-022-00528-9
Popis: Abstract Background The health of wheelchair users’ upper limbs is directly related to their quality of life. Moreover, para-sport athletes are subjected to a dual load on their upper extremities from competition and daily life, making it even more critical to maintain upper extremity health. This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of joint disorders in elite wheelchair basketball players using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Methods We scanned MRI images of the bilateral shoulders, elbows, and wrist joints of ten elite wheelchair basketball players and ten general wheelchair users. The elite wheelchair players were athletes who underwent at our institution medical checkup of the candidates for the national team for the international women's tournament and who agreed to this research purpose. The general wheelchair players were recruited from wheelchair users in their 20s and 30s who had no daily exercise habits and who agreed to the study objectives. Two radiologists interpreted the MRI images and diagnosed the diseases of each joint. We compared the number of lesions between the two groups. We used Fisher's exact test to determine whether the lesions diagnosed by MRI were specific to wheelchair basketball players. The significance threshold was set at P
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