Roles And Responsibilities Of The Physical Therapist In Collegiate Athletics: Results Of A National Survey.

Background: Over the past decade, there has been an increased focus on collaboration within collegiate athletics based sports medicine. Specifically, athletic trainers (ATs) and physical therapists (PTs) are working together, often side-by-side, to provide optimal care for the injured athlete. However, the roles and responsibilities of the PT within this model are currently not well described.

Adolescent Bone Advantages 3 Years After Resistance Training Trial.

Purpose: We assessed maintenance of skeletal advantages 3 years after completion of a 2-year, school-based, controlled exercise trial in adolescent girls.

Method: Middle-school girls participated in a resistance training program embedded in physical education classes. Effort groups (low-effort group [LO] and high-effort group [HI]) were identified; the control group (CON) participated in standard physical education at a separate school.

A 2-yr, School-Based Resistance Exercise Pilot Program Increases Bone Accrual in Adolescent Girls.

Purpose: The current analysis evaluates cumulative benefits after year two (Y2) of a school-based resistance training intervention.

Methods: Adolescent girls were enrolled and measured at the beginning of 6 grade (baseline, BL) and again at 1 follow-up (FU1: Y1 end) and 2 follow-up (FU2: Y2 end). School gym classes met alternate school days.

Treatment strategies for the female athlete triad in the adolescent athlete: current perspectives.

Since the passage of Title IX in 1972, female sports participation has dramatically increased. The benefits of physical activity, including decreased risk for heart disease and diabetes as well as improved body image and self-esteem, far outweigh the risks. However, a select population of adolescent and young adult females may experience symptoms related to the female athlete triad (Triad), which refers to the interrelatedness of energy availability, menstrual function, and bone mineral density (BMD).

High School Sport Specialization Patterns of Current Division I Athletes.

Background: Sport specialization is a strategy to acquire superior sport performance in 1 sport but is associated with increased injury risk. Currently, the degree of high school specialization among Division I athletes is unknown.

Hypothesis: College athletes will display increased rates of specialization as they progress through their high school careers.

The postpartum triathlete.

The postpartum period in a woman's life is filled with numerous changes, including physical changes, changes in sleep habits, and learning how to best care for a newborn. A common goal among postpartum women is to either begin or resume an active lifestyle, which often includes physical activity such as running, biking and swimming. The postpartum athlete may discover barriers that prevent her from returning to or beginning an exercise routine.

Barriers to Compliance in a Home-Based Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Prevention Program in Female High School Athletes.

Importance: Supervised injury prevention programs can decrease injuries in female high school athletes. Research regarding home-based injury prevention programs is limited.

Objective: To identify barriers to compliance with a home-based injury prevention program in rural Wisconsin female high school basketball players.

Disordered eating, menstrual irregularity, and musculoskeletal injury in high school athletes: a comparison of oral contraceptive pill users and nonusers.

Background: The female athlete triad is the interrelatedness of energy availability, menstrual function, and bone density. Currently, limited information about triad components and their relationship to musculoskeletal injury in the high school population exists. In addition, no study has specifically examined triad components and injury rate in high school oral contraceptive pill (OCP) users.

Long term consequences of the female athlete triad.

In the past 40 years, female sports participation, particularly at the high school level, has significantly increased. Physical activity in females has numerous positive benefits, including improved body image and overall health. Unfortunately, a select population of exercising females may experience symptoms related to the female athlete triad, which refers to the interrelatedness of energy availability, menstrual function, and bone mineral density.

Menstrual irregularity and musculoskeletal injury in female high school athletes.

Context: The female athlete triad describes the interrelatedness of energy availability, menstrual function, and bone density. Although associations between triad components and musculoskeletal injury (INJ) have been reported in collegiate athletes, limited information exists about menstrual irregularity (MI) and INJ in the high school population.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of and relationship between MI and INJ in high school athletes.

Low back and hip pain in a postpartum runner: applying ultrasound imaging and running analysis.

Study Design: Case report.

Background: Postpartum low back and hip dysfunction may be caused by an incomplete recovery of abdominal musculature and impaired neuromuscular control. The purpose of this report is to describe the management of a postpartum runner with hip and low back pain through exercise training via ultrasound imaging (USI) biofeedback combined with running-form modification.

Female athlete triad syndrome in the high school athlete.

Female sports participation at the high school level has significantly increased since the 1970s. Physical activity in females has numerous positive benefits, including improved body image and overall health. Unfortunately, a select population of exercising females may experience symptoms related to the "female athlete triad," which refers to the interrelationships among energy availability, menstrual function, and bone mineral density.

Associations between disordered eating, menstrual dysfunction, and musculoskeletal injury among high school athletes.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of, and association between, disordered eating (DE), menstrual dysfunction (MD), and musculoskeletal injury (MI) among high school female athletes.

Background: Female athlete triad (Triad) syndrome is the interrelatedness of DE, MD, and low bone mass.

Competency revalidation study of specialty practice in sports physical therapy.

Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to revalidate the competencies that define the practice of sports physical therapy. Additionally, the study allowed for the comparison of responses of board certified specialists in sports physical therapy to respondents who were not specialists.

Methods: A survey instrument based the on American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties practice analysis template and The Guide to Physical Therapist Practice was developed by the Sports Specialty Council and a panel of subject matter experts in sports physical therapy.

Differential diagnosis of spondylolysis in a patient with chronic low back pain.

Study Design: Resident's case problem.

Background: A 26-year-old male sought physical therapy services via direct access secondary to a flare-up of a chronic low back pain condition. The patient complained of recent onset of lumbosacral joint pain, including (1) constant right-sided deep-bruise sensation, (2) intermittent right-sided sharp stabbing pain, and (3) constant bilateral aching.