Asymmetry during preseason Functional Movement Screen testing is associated with injury during a junior Australian football season.

Objectives: The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a popular screening tool, however, the postulated relationship between prospective injury and FMS scoring remains sparsely explored in adolescent athletes. The aim of the study was to examine the association between pre-season FMS scores and injuries sustained during one regular season competition in elite adolescent Australian football players.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

High prevalence of dysfunctional, asymmetrical, and painful movement in elite junior Australian Football players assessed using the Functional Movement Screen.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of dysfunctional, asymmetrical, and painful movement in junior Australian Football players using the Functional Movement Screen (FMS).

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methods: Elite junior male Australian Football players (n=301) aged 15-18 years completed pre-season FMS testing.

Annual improvement in fitness test performance for elite junior Australian football cohorts.

Objectives: The study examined the change in fitness test performance of elite junior Australian football cohorts tested over the span of seven years.

Design: Annual cross-sectional observation study.

Methods: A total of 1714 elite junior male Australian football players were eligible for the study and completed annual late pre-season fitness testing between 2009 and 2015.

Does physiotherapy diagnosis of shoulder pathology compare to arthroscopic findings?

Aims: To explore the ability of a physiotherapist, using a standardised musculoskeletal physiotherapy assessment protocol, to accurately identify the structures potentially responsible for shoulder symptoms against a standardised arthroscopic shoulder diagnostic assessment, and to determine the physiotherapists' ability to influence post-test diagnostic accuracy.

Study Design: Consecutive case-based cohort study.

Subject Selection: All participants were selected by two orthopaedic surgeons for arthroscopic investigation during a 6-month period.

Motor control training for an amateur baseball pitcher with isolated paralysis of trapezius: a case report.

Study Design: Case report.

Background: A case of an athlete with accessory nerve injury has not been previously reported although there have been a number of case reports and case series of non-athletes with accessory nerve injury. This case study reports motor control intervention for an amateur baseball pitcher with isolated paralysis of the right trapezius who lost pitching control after changing his pitching technique.

Junior Australian football injury research: are we moving forward?

Summarise the progress of junior Australian football (AF) injury research in line with the six stages of the 'Translating Research into Injury Prevention Practice' (TRIPP) model, in order to direct future research for the area. Systematically searched narrative review. Bibliographic research databases (Medline, PubMed, Scopus, and SPORTDiscus™) were used to search for original studies in which injuries in junior AF players were investigated.

The relationship between pre-season fitness testing and injury in elite junior Australian football players.

Objectives: Australian Football (AF) is a collision sport containing high injury rates in junior competition. Successful performance at the elite junior level not only requires superior specific football knowledge and skills, but also well developed fitness qualities. However, no studies have examined the link between physical fitness qualities and injury in AF.

The epidemiology of injury for an elite junior Australian Football cohort.

Objectives: To implement an injury recording protocol in a junior elite Australian Football competition and determine the injury profile of this population.

Design: Longitudinal cohort study.

Methods: Players from an elite Under 18 Australian Football competition were tracked throughout one football season in terms of participation or non-participation in the football competition.

Muscular load to the therapist's shoulder during three alternative techniques for trigger point therapy.

Aim: To compare the muscular load (level of muscle activity) to the shoulder during alternative approaches to trigger point therapy (TPT).

Method: Massage therapy students (n=7) applied a predetermined level of force to an artificial contact surface. Changes in five pairs of superficial shoulder muscles (indicated by surface electromyography) were recorded while the student performed the single-arm technique (SAT), the double-arm technique (DAT) and the treatment-tool technique (TTT) using TriggerMate, a new treatment tool.

Diagnostic accuracy of clinical tests for superior labral anterior posterior lesions: a systematic review.

Study Design: Systematic literature review.

Objectives: To conduct a systematic review of case series and clinical trials that investigate the diagnostic accuracy of clinical tests for superior labral anterior posterior (SLAP) lesions.

Background: Primary contact practitioners are often presented with shoulder problems and use a battery of clinical tests to reach a diagnosis.

Relative contributions of the infraspinatus and deltoid during external rotation in patients with symptomatic subacromial impingement.

A principal cause of subacromial impingement (SAI) is failure of the rotator cuff to center the humeral head in the glenoid during shoulder motion, counteracting the effect of the deltoid. As rehabilitation of the rotator cuff endeavors to restore balance between these muscle groups, the purpose of this companion study was to evaluate, in the symptomatic shoulders of patients with SAI, (1) the conditions of resisted isometric external rotation (ER) that optimized the contribution of the infraspinatus and (2) the load of ER at which adduction was most effective at reducing the deltoid contribution and then to compare this with the relative contribution of the infraspinatus and the posterior and middle deltoid in asymptomatic shoulders. In 14 subjects (18 shoulders) with SAI, surface electromyographic activity of the infraspinatus and the posterior and middle deltoid and pectoralis major was recorded at low, medium, and high loads of resisted isometric ER, with and without adduction.

Relative contributions of infraspinatus and deltoid during external rotation in healthy shoulders.

Balanced forces around the shoulder are important for normal function; however, rehabilitation guidelines are not well defined because the muscle contributions and optimal exercise technique to recruit them are poorly understood. This study aimed to determine (1) the conditions of resisted isometric external rotation that optimized the contribution of infraspinatus and (2) the load of external rotation at which the adduction strategy was most effective at reducing deltoid contributions. Eighteen subjects with healthy shoulders (n = 36) performed resisted isometric external rotation at 3 increasing loads--10%, 40%, and 70% of their maximal resisted external rotation voluntary isometric contraction--with and without adduction.

Pre-manipulative testing of the cervical spine review, revision and new clinical guidelines.

Members of the Manipulative Physiotherapists Association of Australia (now Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia) were surveyed to determine their use of cervical manipulation, compliance with and attitudes to the Australian Physiotherapy Association's (APA) Protocol for Pre-manipulative Testing of the Cervical Spine, and the incidence of adverse effects from cervical manipulation. The questionnaire was mailed to 740 members and returned by 480 members (65%). Cervical manipulation (84.