The National Interscholastic Cycling Association Mountain Biking Injury Surveillance System: 40,000 Student-Athlete-Years of Data.

A web-based injury surveillance system was implemented through a collaboration between University of Utah researchers and the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) to better understand injury characteristics in mountain biking. Data were collected from NICA leagues during the 2018 and 2019 seasons. Injuries were tracked in 41,327 student-athlete-years, identifying 1750 unique injuries during 1155 injury events.

A randomized prospective evaluation of 3 techniques of postoperative pain management after posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion.

Study Design: Randomized prospective trial.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of intravenous analgesia with single and dual continuous epidural analgesia (CEA) in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) undergoing posterior spinal fusion and instrumentation (PSIF).

Summary Of Background Data: Pain management after posterior spinal fusion (PSF) for patients with AIS is challenging.

Involvement of the spine in patients with multiple hereditary exostoses.

Background: Extension of a vertebral exostosis into the spinal canal is rare, but many isolated cases have been reported in the literature. Three existing patients with multiple hereditary exostoses at our institution had development of neurologic findings and were found to have exostoses in the spinal canal. These findings led us to perform magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomographic scans for the remaining patients with multiple hereditary exostoses at our institution.