The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine released their position paper on concussion in 2010. You can find it here. They report that the rate of concussion in sport play is 0.14-3.66 per 1000 in high school and 0.5-3.0 in college sports. The position paper goes on to review on-field analysis, side line analysis and [...]
Brooks et al, 2010 completed a 5 year survey of skiers and snowboarders and the injuries they sustained. In that time period, over 6 million skier days were recorded. A total of 16945 injuries were recorded for a rate of 2.68 per 1000. Of them, 308 were cross country skiing and 1856 people did not [...]
Brown, et al 2011 had 419 marathon runners complete a survey on race day. This was used to gather different data. First, the average age of men and women were 41 and 38 respectively indicating that marathon running is popular with a slightly older sports crowd. They had trained 6.8 months for this race and [...]
McMullen and Uhl in 2000 published an interesting piece on using the kinetic chain concept to rehabilitate shoulder injuries. Laying the frame work, they discuss how the body integrates movement proximal to distal to apply force or velocity to an object (racket, ball) or a player (boxing, wrestling). When a shoulder is injured, the proximal [...]
Stroke rehab has a pretty limited playbook. Keep in mind, by the time a therapist sees the client, the brain damage has been done and it’s during the window of rapid adaptation and new neural pattern formation that they try to maximize connections in neighboring brain regions to regain maximal function. One of the new [...]
Shoulder dislocations are a relatively rare occurrence (0.08 per 1000) but feature disproportionately frequent among active men under the age of 30, doctors are reducing their dislocations and then sending them off to rehab for stabilization and retraining. The two popular methods to reduce shoulders are the Kocher and the Milch. Kocher’s can be seen [...]
One of the major problems in rehabilitation is a method of repeatedly testing and classifying patients so as to correctly direct treatment and reassess. A recent push for outcome measures pre and post treatment has been made in most rehabilitative areas however until there is both widespread adoption and widespread data indicating that these measures [...]
Cameron Marshall recently completed a review of sports concussion. The author begins with a review of the current state of affairs; that 90% of concussions do not result in a loss of consciousness, that they account of 8.2% of all high school sports injuries, that 50% of concussions are from football players, that 12.6% of [...]