101. The Non-injured Leg Can Be Used as a Reference for the Injured Leg in Single-legged Hop Tests.
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Vereijken A, van Trijffel E, Aerts I, Tassignon B, Verschueren J, and Meeusen R
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Background: Single-legged hop tests are frequently used in substantiating return to sport decisions following lower extremity injury. Evidence for using the non-injured leg as a reference for the injured leg in the return to sport decision-making at the criterion-based point of return to sport following lower extremity injury is lacking., Purpose: To compare absolute values in single-legged hop tests between the non-injured leg of athletes returning to high-impact sports after lower extremity injury and the matched leg of healthy athletes., Study Design: Cross-sectional study., Methods: One hundred and sixty-nine athletes returning to high-impact sports after lower extremity injury and 169 matched healthy athletes executed five single-legged hop tests. Differences between athletes returning to high-impact sports after lower extremity injury and matched healthy athletes on five single-legged hop tests were analyzed using paired t-tests., Results: There were no statistically significant differences between the non-injured leg of athletes returning to sport and the matched leg of healthy athletes. Effect sizes ranged from 0.05 to 0.14 indicating negligible effects., Conclusion: Clinicians can use the non-injured leg as a reference for the injured leg in single-legged hop tests for deciding on return to high-impact sports after lower extremity injuries., Level of Evidence: 3b., Competing Interests: All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this manuscript.
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- 2021
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