Navigating challenges of breast implant rupture in a rugby player: Challenges and risk assessment.

Sports physicians need to be aware of potential complications related to breast implants in athletes. Problems with breast implants can affect an athlete's physical health, overall mental well-being and performance. This case report explores the challenges sports physicians face in diagnosing and managing breast implant ruptures in athletes.

Healing of acute anterior cruciate ligament rupture on MRI and outcomes following non-surgical management with the Cross Bracing Protocol.

Objective: Investigate MRI evidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) healing, patient-reported outcomes and knee laxity in patients with acute ACL rupture managed non-surgically with the Cross Bracing Protocol (CBP).

Methods: Eighty consecutive patients within 4 weeks of ACL rupture were managed with CBP (knee immobilisation at 90° flexion in brace for 4 weeks, followed by progressive increases in range-of-motion until brace removal at 12 weeks, and physiotherapist-supervised goal-oriented rehabilitation). MRIs (3 months and 6 months) were graded using the ACL OsteoArthritis Score (ACLOAS) by three radiologists.

Depression, Anxiety, and Alcohol Use in Elite Rugby League Players Over a Competitive Season.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and rates of alcohol misuse in elite rugby league players in Australasia.

Design: A cross-sectional, epidemiological study with repeated measures.

Setting: Surveys were conducted during the 2015 preseason and in-season.

Alterations in the Secretome of Clinically Relevant Preparations of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cocultured with Hyaluronan.

Osteoarthritis (OA) can be a debilitating degenerative disease and is the most common form of arthritic disease. There is a general consensus that current nonsurgical therapies are insufficient for younger OA sufferers who are not candidates for knee arthroplasties. Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) therapy for the treatment of OA can slow disease progression and lead to neocartilage formation.

Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound in lower limb bone stress injuries: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) for the improvement of lower limb bone stress injuries in a civilian population.

Design: A prospective, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial to compare LIPUS with placebo.

Setting: Civilian private practice population in Sydney, Australia.

Analysis of in vitro secretion profiles from adipose-derived cell populations.

Background: Adipose tissue is an attractive source of cells for therapeutic purposes because of the ease of harvest and the high frequency of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Whilst it is clear that MSCs have significant therapeutic potential via their ability to secrete immuno-modulatory and trophic cytokines, the therapeutic use of mixed cell populations from the adipose stromal vascular fraction (SVF) is becoming increasingly common.

Methods: In this study we have measured a panel of 27 cytokines and growth factors secreted by various combinations of human adipose-derived cell populations.

Custom formed orthoses in cycling.

To assess the effects of currently used prescribed in-shoe custom foot orthoses (CFOs) on a number of biomechanical variables during the power phase of cycling, including: hip adduction, knee abduction and tibial internal rotation. Before and after cross-over study recording subjects' biomechanical variables with and without their CFOs. Twelve competitive cyclists, currently using prescribed in-shoe CFOs, performed two exercise bouts on a stationary trainer, with 3-dimensional data recorded on an 8 camera Vicon Mx system.

Shoulder pain in elite swimmers: primarily due to swim-volume-induced supraspinatus tendinopathy.

Background/hypothesis: Shoulder pain in elite swimmers is common, and its pathogenesis is uncertain. HYPOTHESIS/STUDY DESIGN: The authors used a cross-sectional study design to test Jobe's hypothesis that repetitive forceful swimming leads to shoulder laxity, which in turn leads to impingement pain.

Methods: Eighty young elite swimmers (13-25 years of age) completed questionnaires on their swimming training, pain and shoulder function.

Reliability of MRI assessment of supraspinatus tendinopathy.

Objective: To determine the interobserver and intraobserver reliability of the interpretation of MRIs for supraspinatus tendinosis.

Methods: In the interobserver trial, the MRIs of 52 athletes' shoulders were observed by 3 observers on one occasion within a 2-month period. All 52 images were read by the most experienced musculoskeletal radiologist on 3 different occasions on separate days without access to the previous readings for the intraobserver trial.