Training patterns associated with injury in New York City Marathon runners.

Objective: Training patterns are commonly implicated in running injuries. The purpose of this study was to measure the incidence of injury and illness among marathon runners and the association of injuries with training patterns and workload.

Methods: Runners registered for the New York City Marathon were eligible to enrol and prospectively monitored during the 16 weeks before the marathon, divided into 4-week 'training quarters' (TQ) numbered TQ1-TQ4.

Increased Incidence of Injury Among Runners With COVID-19.

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects multiple organ systems. Whether and how COVID-19 affects the musculoskeletal system remains unknown. We aim to assess the association between COVID-19 and risk of injury.

Running races during the COVID-19 pandemic: a 2020 survey of the running community.

Objectives: To survey runners and triathletes about their willingness to resume in-person racing during the COVID-19 pandemic, health concerns related to mass races and changes in running patterns since the start of the pandemic.

Design: An electronic survey was distributed from 15 July to 1 September 2020 to runners and triathletes by New York Road Runners, ASICS North America, and race medical directors, and through social media.

Participants: Runners and triathletes 18 years of age or older who participated in at least one race in 2019.

Considerations for Return to Exercise Following Mild-to-Moderate COVID-19 in the Recreational Athlete.

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant morbidity and mortality around the world. The spectrum of COVID-19 is broad, from clinical disease requiring intensive medical care to less severe symptoms that are treated with supportive care. The majority of COVID-19 cases fall into the mild-to-moderate category, with symptoms lasting less than 6 weeks.

Functional outcomes and patient satisfaction after fasciotomy for chronic exertional compartment syndrome.

Background: Patients with chronic exertional compartment syndrome who have failed nonoperative treatment are evaluated with pre-exertion and postexertion compartment pressure testing and may be treated with fasciotomy. Failure rates of up to 20% have been reported and may be related to factors such as age, sex, postexertion compartment pressures, compartment(s) released, and duration of symptoms.

Hypothesis: Higher preoperative postexertion compartment pressures are correlated with higher success and patient satisfaction rates after fasciotomy.

Performance-enhancing drug use in young athletes.

This article explores the issue of performance-enhancing drug use in adolescent athletes. The article describes current substances that are being used by adolescent athletes, explains their positive and negative effects, examines factors contributing to their increased use in adolescent athletes, and discusses approaches to educating adolescents about alternate means of enhancing their athletic performance. It is hoped that this information will be useful toward encouraging young athletes to pursue, safe, healthy, and natural means of performance enhancement, such as practice and strength training, to improve sports performance in a safe, effective manner.

Breakfast habits, nutritional status, body weight, and academic performance in children and adolescents.

Breakfast has been labeled the most important meal of the day, but are there data to support this claim? We summarized the results of 47 studies examining the association of breakfast consumption with nutritional adequacy (nine studies), body weight (16 studies), and academic performance (22 studies) in children and adolescents. Breakfast skipping is highly prevalent in the United States and Europe (10% to 30%), depending on age group, population, and definition. Although the quality of breakfast was variable within and between studies, children who reported eating breakfast on a consistent basis tended to have superior nutritional profiles than their breakfast-skipping peers.

Patterns in childhood sports injury.

Objective: The purpose of this epidemiologic study is twofold: first, to determine the relative frequency of sports-related injuries compared with all musculoskeletal injuries in patients 5 to 21 years of age presenting to the emergency department (ED), and second, to evaluate the sports-specific and anatomic site-specific nature of these injuries.

Methods: Patterns of injury in patients 5 to 21 years of age presenting to four pediatric EDs with musculoskeletal injuries in October 1999 and April 2000 were prospectively studied. Information collected included age, sex, injury type, anatomical injury site, and cause of injury (sports-related or otherwise).

Expectations of pediatric sport participation among pediatricians, patients, and parents.

As the number of pediatric and adolescent athletes involved in competitive sports continues to grow, and as the competitors in youth sports trend toward a "win at all costs" mentality, pediatricians are increasingly being asked to provide sports medicine treatment and counseling for athletic children. This article outlines the demographic changes in the pediatric and adolescent athlete population in the United States and explains how the pediatrician can become a more effective caregiver to the athletic patient.