Musculoskeletal Injury in Paddle Sport Athletes.

Introduction: Kayak racing has been an Olympic sport since 1936. The sport is evolving with the introduction of ocean skis and stand-up-paddle boards (SUP). Musculoskeletal injury incidence surveys have been conducted for ultra-marathon events, but no data have been published for other racing formats.

Supervised or Unsupervised Rehabilitation After Total Hip Replacement Provides Similar Improvements for Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: To determine whether patients do better with unsupervised (home-based) physiotherapy or in an outpatient setting.

Setting: Acute care public hospital in the region, supporting a population of ∼540,000.

Design: Single-blind randomized controlled trial.

Standing or supine x-rays after total hip replacement - when is the safe zone not safe?

An acetabular prosthesis orientated outside the 'safe zone' is one of the key contributing factors in increasing complications after total hip replacement (THR). Although acetabular orientation is routinely assessed using supine x-rays, standing x-rays have been proposed because a change in body position alters pelvic tilt and therefore acetabular orientation. This study aimed to assess whether acetabular components orientated within the 'safe zone' in supine can also be outside the 'safe zone' in standing.

Physiotherapist-directed rehabilitation exercises in the outpatient or home setting improve strength, gait speed and cadence after elective total hip replacement: a systematic review.

Question: In people who have been discharged from hospital after a total hip replacement, do rehabilitation exercises directed by a physiotherapist improve strength, gait, function and quality of life? Are these exercises as effective in an unsupervised home-based setting as they are in a supervised outpatient setting?

Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis of randomised trials.

Participants: Adult patients after elective total hip replacement.

Intervention: Physiotherapist-directed rehabilitation exercises after discharge from hospital following total hip replacement.

Ultrasound assessment of the anatomical validity of T3 and L4 as sEMG recording sites.

The accuracy of surface EMG measurement is dependent upon minimizing potential crosstalk from other muscles. Although they are deeply situated, in places the erector spinae are covered with electrically silent aponeuroses rather than active muscle tissue. Theoretically these aponeuroses can serve as windows for sEMG recordings.