Taking the lead towards healthy performance: the requirement of leadership to elevate the health and performance teams in elite sports.

Where not too long ago we serviced athletes; nowadays, we have the responsibility to lead a multidisciplinary team that is mandated to protect the athletes' health, ensure competition availability and ability to compete at peak performance. In essence, our roles have shifted from being a service provider to a health and performance manager who steers a multidisciplinary team of specialists. In this viewpoint, we question whether we really have the skills to lead a 'team' like this effectively.

A Case of Posterior Sternoclavicular Dislocation in a Professional American Football Player.

Sternoclavicular (SC) dislocation is a rare injury of the upper extremity. Treatment of posterior SC dislocation ranges from conservative (closed reduction) to operative (open reduction with or without surgical reconstruction of the SC joint). To date, we are unaware of any literature that exists pertaining to this injury or its treatment in elite athletes.

Magnetic resonance imaging as a predictor of return to play following syndesmosis (high) ankle sprains in professional football players.

Background: Syndesmosis ankle sprains cause greater disability and longer duration of recovery than lateral ankle sprains.

Objective: To describe the severity of syndesmosis sprains using several accepted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) criteria and to assess the interrater reliability of diagnosing syndesmosis injury using these same criteria in professional American football players.

Hypothesis: There is a high degree of interrater reliability of MRI findings in American football players with syndesmosis ankle sprains.