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Low back pain in female elite football and handball players compared with an active control group.
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A Pilot Study on the Safety of Active Conservative Management of Low Grade Lumbar Stress Reactions in Adolescent Soccer Players
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Prevalence of Back Pain in Sports: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Pooled it
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- Comparative Risk Analysis of Low Back Pain among Professional Football, Ice Hockey, and Floorball Athletes.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2023Article
- Musculoskeletal pains among amateur and professional athletes of five disciplines in Senegal: a preliminary study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- LOW BACK PAIN ESTIMATES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCCER: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS.Acta ortopedica brasileira · 2023Article
- Is There a Relationship Between Workload and Occurrence of Back Pain and Back Injuries in Athletes?Frontiers in physiology · 2020Review
- COMPARISON OF LATERAL ABDOMINAL MUSCLE THICKNESS IN YOUNG MALE SOCCER PLAYERS WITH AND WITHOUT LOW BACK PAIN.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2019Article
- Injury incidence and injury patterns by category, player position, and maturation in elite male handball elite players.Biology of sport · 2019Article
- Prevalence of back pain in a group of elite athletes exposed to repetitive overhead activity.PloS one · 2019Article
- Neck pain and low back pain in relation to functional disability in different sport activities.Journal of exercise rehabilitation · 2018Article
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- Low back and neck and shoulder pain in members and non-members of adolescents' sports clubs: the Finnish Health Promoting Sports Club (FHPSC) study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2016Article
- Low back pain status of female university students in relation to different sport activities.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2016Article
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this cross-sectional study was to compare the prevalence of low back pain (LBP) among female elite football and handball players to a matched non-professional active control group.
methodsThe participants were requested to answer a questionnaire based on standardized Nordic questionnaires for musculoskeletal symptoms to assess the prevalence of LBP. Included participants were elite female football (n = 277) and handball players (n = 190), and a randomly selected control group from the Norwegian population (n = 167).
resultsFifty-seven percentage of the football players, 59 % of the handball players and 60 % of the control group had experienced LBP the previous year. There were no significant group differences in the prevalence of LBP ever (p = 0.62), the previous year (p = 0.85) or the previous 7 days (p = 0.63). For both sports, there was a significant increase in prevalence of LBP from the resting period to the competitive periods of the season (p ≤ 0.001). Seventy percent of the goalkeepers in both football and handball had experienced LBP the previous year.
conclusionThere were no difference in LBP among female elite football and handball players compared with the control group. However, female elite athletes in football and handball reported a high prevalence of LBP compared to previous studies. The variations in LBP and playing positions indicate that specific field positions, in football and handball, is a risk factor for developing LBP.
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