Purpose: Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is characterized by coronal scoliosis and often a sagittal hypokyphosis. The effect of bracing on the sagittal profile is not well understood. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of night-time bracing on the sagittal profile in patients with AIS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Purpose: The efficacy of bracing larger curves in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients is uncertain. We aimed to assess the influence of night-time bracing in AIS patients with main curves exceeding 40° Cobb angle at brace initiation.
Methods: We reviewed AIS patients treated with nighttime braces between 2005 and 2018.
Purpose: Risser stage is widely used as a marker for skeletal maturity (SM) and thereby an indirect measure for the risk of progression of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). The Scoliosis Research Society recommends bracing for Risser stages 0-2 as Risser stage 3 or above is considered low risk. Very few studies have assessed the risk of progression during bracing in Risser stages 3-4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols are often specific to a specific type of surgery without assessing the overall effect on the ward. Previous studies have demonstrated reduced length of stay (LOS) with ERAS protocols in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), although the patients are often healthy and with few or no comorbidities. In 2018, we used ERAS principles for patients undergoing AIS surgery with a subsequent 40% reduced LOS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiomed Res Int
March 2022
We determined player-to-player distance, body-to-ball contact, and exercise intensity during three training modalities in various football populations. 213 participants were recruited, ranging from 9-year-old boys to young men and 11-year-old girls to middle-aged women. All groups were analysed with video-filming and GPS-based Polar Pro monitors during three types of football training for 20 min, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe braces of today are constructed to correct the frontal plane deformity of idiopathic adolescent scoliosis (AIS). The Spinaposture brace© (Spinaposture Aps, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a soft-fabric brace for AIS and is designed to enhance rotational axial stability by inducing a sagittal plane kyphotic correction. This prospective observational study evaluated the brace in fifteen patients with AIS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To assess the association between preoperative S-albumin and postoperative outcome following adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery.
Methods: All patients undergoing ASD surgery from February 1, 2017 and January 31, 2018 at a single quaternary referral center were prospectively included. Adverse events (AE) during admission were assessed using the Spine AdVerse Events Severity (SAVES) system.
Background: Implementing standardized pathways following adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery have been shown to reduce length of stay (LOS). However, controversies still exist. This applies especially to the transition to solid foods, postoperative pruritus, and postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: During the COVID-19 pandemic, physical inactivity has increased, and a wide range of sporting activities locked down, with possible long-term implications for public health. Football is the most popular sport worldwide, and recreational football training leads to broad-spectrum health effects. Football is, however, deemed a contact sport with frequent close contact important to consider during COVID-19 pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Intraoperative traction has shown improved curve correction in neuromuscular scoliosis surgery. It is found to be superior to anterior release in terms of correction of both main curve and pelvic obliquity. No previous study has examined the effect of intraoperative traction in patients without pelvic fixation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVigh-Larsen, JF, Haverinen, MT, Panduro, J, Ermidis, G, Andersen, TB, Overgaard, K, Krustrup, P, Parkkari, J, Avela, J, Kyröläinen, H, and Mohr, M. On-ice and off-ice fitness profiles of elite and U20 male ice hockey players of two different national standards. J Strength Cond Res 34(12): 3369-3376, 2020-Differences in body composition and performance were investigated between elite and U20 male ice hockey players of 2 different national standards.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe popularity of spatio-temporal analyses in soccer is increasing. As many of these analyses depend on the regions a player can occupy in a certain amount of time (the possible regions), the understanding of this concepts is important for analyses to produce usable results. This study investigated how possible regions of soccer morph with varying times and running speeds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The present study investigated relationships between age, body composition and performance in elite male ice hockey players.
Methods: 199 players performed off-ice tests (countermovement jump height (CMJ) and body composition) and on-ice tests (5-10-5 Pro Agility test, 30-m sprint test and the maximal Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Ice Hockey test (Yo-Yo IR1-IH
Results: No overall correlations between age and performance were present except small-moderate positive associations between age and body- and muscle mass (r=0.
Purpose: The present study investigated muscle metabolism and fatigue during simulated elite male ice hockey match-play.
Methods: Thirty U20 male national team players completed an experimental game comprising three periods of 8 × 1-min shifts separated by 2-min recovery intervals. Two vastus lateralis biopsies were obtained either during the game (n = 7) or pregame and postgame (n = 6).
Vigh-Larsen, JF, Beck, JH, Daasbjerg, A, Knudsen, CB, Kvorning, T, Overgaard, K, Andersen, TB, and Mohr, M. Fitness characteristics of elite and subelite male ice hockey players: A cross-sectional study. J Strength Cond Res 33(9): 2352-2360, 2019-The purpose was to evaluate fitness profiles in elite (age 23.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To compare treatment efficacy between the Boston full-time brace and the Providence part-time brace in main thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
Methods: Patients were treated with either the Boston brace ( = 37) or the Providence brace ( = 40). Inclusion criteria were Risser grade ≤2, major curve between 25° and 40° with the apex of the curve between T7 and T11 vertebrae.
Background: The high injury incidence during match-play in female adolescent football is a major concern. In football, males and females play matches with the same football size. No studies have investigated the effect of football size on injury incidence in female adolescent football.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKnudsen, NS and Andersen, TB. Detection of spatiotemporal asymmetry in pro level soccer players. J Strength Cond Res 32(3): 798-804, 2018-Several papers have focused on change of direction (COD) asymmetry investigated through standardized tests, and used this information to provide some spatiotemporal insight during games.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVigh-Larsen, JF, Dalgas, U, and Andersen, TB. Position-specific acceleration and deceleration profiles in elite youth and senior soccer players. J Strength Cond Res 32(4): 1114-1122, 2018-The purpose of the study was to characterize and compare the position-specific activity profiles of young and senior elite soccer players with special emphasis put on accelerations and decelerations.
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February 2017
The purpose of this study was to evaluate 3 different starting techniques from the staggered stance with regards to sprint time, reaction time, linear impulse and power. 11 male amateur American football players volunteered to participate in a testing session consisting of twelve 5 m sprints, 4 in each technique (normal (NORM), backwards false step (BFS) and forwards false step (FFS)) in random order. Sprint starts were performed on force plates to investigate ground reaction forces, reaction time and total sprint time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFØrntoft, C, Larsen, MN, Andersen, TB, Rasmussen, LS, Póvoas, SCA, Randers, MB, and Krustrup, P. Technical actions, heart rate, and locomotor activity in 7v7 and 8v8 games for female youth soccer players. J Strength Cond Res 30(12): 3298-3303, 2016-The purpose of this study was to evaluate technical performance, heart rate (HR), and activity profile in 7v7 and 8v8 soccer games for 9- to 10-year-old girls (U11).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe investigated kicking velocity and physical, technical, and tactical match performance for under-18 (U18) female football players and evaluated the effect of using a newly developed lighter smaller ball. Ten regional league teams participated. Maximal ball velocity was 4±1% higher when kicking the new ball (NB) compared with the standard ball (SB) in a laboratory testing situation (23.
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