Back pain in adolescent athletes

Physician and Sportsmedicine

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 80-89

  Young, Warren K ^a   D'Hemecourt, Pierre A ^b  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Back injury; Back pain; Overuse injuries; Pediatric; Return to play; Spine

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLYCOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT DISEASE; APOPHYSEAL RING FRACTURE; ATHLETE; BACKACHE; BERTOLOTTI SYNDROME; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRACE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; KINESIOTHERAPY; KYPHOSIS; LEG PAIN; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LORDOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; NERVE COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; ORTHOSIS; OSSIFICATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SACROILIAC JOINT; SCHEUERMANN DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; SPORT INJURY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

ADOLESCENT; ATHLETES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BACK PAIN; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING;

EID: 84856695712     PISSN: 00913847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/psm.2011.11.1942     Document Type: Review

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