ReviewRehabilitation research and practice2015
Low Back Pain in Athletes Is Associated with General and Sport Specific Risk Factors: A Comprehensive Review of Longitudinal Studies.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Prevalence and incidence of low back pain among runners: a systematic review.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2020Pooled it
- Association between posterior thigh tightness and lifetime low back pain in young basketball players: a cross-sectional study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Sagittal spinal alignment and segmental mobility in collegiate baseball players with low back pain: A cross-sectional study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- Functional Movement Screen Scores Are Comparable in Volleyball Players with and Without Back Pain-The FMS-VBP Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Low Back Pain in Competitive Dressage Riders: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of chiropractic medicine · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Lower Back Pain and Risk Factors in Equestrians: A Systematic Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Prevalence of Lower Back Pain in Portuguese Equestrian Riders.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Potential neurophysiological and biomechanical risk factors for sport-related back problems: A scoping review.Sports medicine and health science · 2024Article
- 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
- Sport and non-specific low back pain in athletes: a scoping review.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Understanding Sex-Based Kinematic and Kinetic Differences of Chasse-Step in Elite Table Tennis Athletes.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Back Problems: Pros and Cons of Core Strengthening Exercises as a Part of Athlete Training.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Performance in dynamic movement tasks and occurrence of low back pain in youth floorball and basketball players.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2020Article
- 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
- Low back pain and FokI (rs2228570) polymorphism of vitamin D receptor in athletes.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2017Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
We aimed to examine systematically the available evidence on risk factors of low back pain (LBP) in athletes. We performed search without language restriction in PubMed, Ovid, Google Scholar, Scopus, and CINAHL. Longitudinal studies that examined possible risk factors of LBP in athletes were included in this systematic review. Based on methodological quality of studies, a best-evidence synthesis was conducted. Seven longitudinal studies were included, four of which had high methodological quality. Results showed that previous LBP, decreased lumbar flexion, and decreased lumbar extension are positively associated with LBP. There was moderate evidence for hip flexor tightness and high body weight as a risk factor. We found insufficient evidence for association between forward bending, previous injury, and amount of training per week, active years, age, and sex with LBP. In conclusion this study would provide a list of risk factors for LBP in athletes, though it showed a strong evidence for only a few including decrease lumbar flexion or extension, previous LBP, and high body weight. This review indicated a high heterogeneity of study characteristics including assessed risk factors and statistical techniques might limit the quality of evidence.
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