Dr. Logan recently spoke at the AAOS annual meeting, sharing her thoughts on cartilage damage in both young and older athletes.
Musculoskeletal injuries to the lower extremities are common among female college student-athletes (SA) in sports that require hopping, pivoting, and running.
A recent study reported that from 2009 to 2014, 80,674 injuries occurred in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) female student athletes - resulting in an injury rate of 5.2 injuries per 1000 athlete-exposures.
Common injuries in female college SA included:
ankle sprains (eg, injury rate = 1.15 per 1000 athlete-exposures [95% confidence interval, 1.10–1.20] in women’s basketball)
Serious time-loss injuries included anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries (eg, injury rate = 0.28 per 1000 athlete-exposures [95% confidence interval: 0.26–0.31] in women’s soccer).1
Injuries can lead to short-term and long-term limitations in physical activity participation. Injuries have also been reported to result in diminished quality of life both while a college athletes - here are some resources for mental health during recovery from sports injuries:
https://psychology.du.edu/clinics/center-performance-excellence
https://www.headspace.com/meditation/sport
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