National Athletic Trainers' Association Position Statement: Management of Acute Skin Trauma.

Objective:   To present recommendations for the cleansing, debridement, dressing, and monitoring of acute skin trauma in patients.

Background:   Acute skin trauma is common during participation in athletic and recreational activities. Clinical decisions and intervention protocols after injury vary among athletic trainers and are often based on ritualistic practices.

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: prevalence and risk factors.

Salgado CD, Farr BM, Calfee DP. Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a meta-analysis of prevalence and risk factors. Clin Infect Dis.

The posterior impingement sign: diagnosis of rotator cuff and posterior labral tears secondary to internal impingement in overhand athletes.

We conducted this study to determine whether a test, the posterior impingement maneuver, could be used to prospectively identify articular side tears of the rotator cuff and/or posterior labrum. Sixty-nine athletes presented with posterior shoulder pain that developed during overhand athletics. Injured shoulders were placed into 90 degrees to 110 degrees of abduction, slight extension, and maximum external rotation, and an effort was made to elicit pain deep within the posterior aspect.

A Nationwide Learning-Style Assessment of Undergraduate Athletic Training Students in CAAHEP-Accredited Athletic Training Programs.

OBJECTIVE: To identify the learning styles and preferred environmental characteristics of undergraduate athletic training students in Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)-accredited athletic training education programs and to determine if learning-style differences existed among geographic regions of the country. DESIGN AND SETTING: Fifty CAAHEP-accredited athletic training programs were randomly selected in proportion to the number of programs in each geographic region. Ten students from each school were selected to complete the Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) and the Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS).

The relationship between clinical measurements of lower extremity posture and tibial translation.

Objective: The purpose of this investigation was to determine if postures of the lower extremity were related to the amount of anterior tibial translation.

Design: Regression model of lower extremity postural measures used to predict the amount of tibial translation for a sample of convenience.

Background: Retrospective studies have indicated a link between certain lower extremity postures and prediction of anterior cruciate ligament injury status.