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Vascularity and pain in the patellar tendon of adult jumping athletes: a 5 month longitudinal study * Commentary
- Source :
- British Journal of Sports Medicine. 39:458-461
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2005.
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Abstract
- Background: This study investigated changes in tendon vascularity in 102 (67 men and 35 women) volleyball players over a 6 month competitive season. Methods: Athletes were examined with both grey scale ultrasound and standardised colour Doppler settings. Vessel length and pain were measured each month on five separate occasions. Vascular tendons were divided into (i) those that were vascular on all occasions (persistent vascularity) and (ii) those that were vascular on more than two but less than five occasions (intermittent vascularity). Results: A total of 41 of the 133 abnormal tendons were vascular on two or more occasions. Of these, 16 had persistent vascularity and 25 had intermittent vascularity. There was no significant difference in the prevalence of vascularity between men and women. None of the tendons had a pattern of vascularity over the season that could be clearly interpreted as the onset or resolution of vascularity. Subjects with changes in both tendons were more likely to have persistent vascularity (p = 0.045). Vessels were longer in tendons with persistent vascularity (p
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Longitudinal study
biology
Athletes
business.industry
Ultrasound
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
General Medicine
Blood flow
medicine.disease_cause
biology.organism_classification
Surgery
Tendon
Jumping
medicine.anatomical_structure
Vascularity
medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Patella
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03063674
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- British Journal of Sports Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2cbce168b2f78220482eee4d3b03aafc