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Osteoarthritis in Football
- Source :
- CARTILAGE. 8:162-172
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2016.
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Abstract
- Football is currently the most popular sporting activity in the world. Multiple reports have shown that a high incidence of osteoarthritis is found in football players. Evidence clearly shows that traumatic injury significantly predisposes players for such pathophysiology. Injuries are frequent in amateur as well as professional football players, with knee and ankle accounting for the most severe injuries. Many professional athletes lose playing time due to injuries and many are forced into early retirement. Posttraumatic osteoarthritis is a common finding among ex-football players with numbers well above the normal population. Today’s surgical techniques are advanced and capable of restoring the joint to a certain extent. However, a restitution ad integrum is reached only in very rare cases. Professional football players that return to play after serious injuries perform their extremely strenuous activity on morphologically compromised joints. Incomplete rehabilitation and pressure to return to play after an injurious event clearly put the athlete at an even higher risk for joint degeneration. Prevention strategies, improved surgical management, strict rehabilitation, as well as future aspects such as early suppression of inflammation, personalized medicine, and predictive genomics DNA profiling are needed to reduce incidence and improve the health perspectives of football players.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Strenuous Activity
medicine.medical_treatment
Biomedical Engineering
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Osteoarthritis
Football
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
medicine
Immunology and Allergy
030222 orthopedics
Rehabilitation
biology
business.industry
Athletes
030229 sport sciences
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
medicine.anatomical_structure
Traumatic injury
Physical therapy
Ankle
business
human activities
Amateur
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19476043 and 19476035
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- CARTILAGE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........cd6f1dc8949ca65d06c3306cbd76499b
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1947603516648186