Paramagnetic contrast medium in high-level athletes with lower limb muscle injuries: can it make the return to sport safer reducing the recurrence rate?

Purpose: The aim is to investigate whether contrast medium can improve accuracy in the assessment of healing muscle injury in high-level professional athletes.

Materials And Methods: Our series is a retrospective study including the records of 22 players (mean age 28 ± 5 SD) with lower limbs muscle injuries type 3a (Mueller-Wohlfarth). All athletes received two MRIs: the day after the injury and before resuming heavy effort activities.

Role of ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging in the prognosis and classification of muscle injuries in professional football players: correlation between imaging and return to sport time.

Purpose: To study distractive muscle injuries applying US and MRI specific classifications and to find if any correlation exists between the results and the return to sport (RTS) time. The second purpose is to evaluate which classification has the best prognostic value and if the lesions extension correlates with the RTS time.

Methods: A total of 26 male, professional soccer players (age 21.