رسالة جامعية
An interdisciplinary approach to better understanding low back pain in elite adolescent tennis players
| العنوان: | An interdisciplinary approach to better understanding low back pain in elite adolescent tennis players |
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| المؤلفون: | Connolly, Molly Ann |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | Victoria University Melbourne: VU Eprint Repository |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science, Institute for Health and Sport, low back pain, adolescents, tennis, tennis players, lumbar spine, biomechanics, kinematics |
| الوصف: | This thesis explores potential risk factors for low back pain in elite adolescent tennis players. Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most significant causes for loss of playing time in elite junior tennis players and can result in up to 4-5 months away from competition. Current research has explored lumbar spine abnormalities as well as serve and groundstroke biomechanics in tennis in an attempt to better understand the manifestation of LBP in the sport. However, the vast majority of this research has been cross-sectional and limited to male playing populations, meaning that the mechanisms of LBP remain unclear. To address the lack of knowledge on the mechanisms of LBP and to provide improved evidence-based prevention for players, this course of studies investigated multiple proposed causes for LBP; including lumbar spine abnormalities, serving biomechanics and workload in a sample of elite adolescent tennis players over a 12-month period. During this study, 19/25 players presented with lumbar spine abnormalities. The most common abnormalities were disc degeneration, pars abnormalities (including bone marrow oedema (BMO)) and facet joint degeneration. Interestingly, the presence of BMO did not influence LBP, with only 3/12 players who presented with BMO experiencing LBP. Further the severity of BMO did not appear associated with LBP, which is contrary to the findings in other sports such as cricket. Lastly, the link between pars abnormalities and facet joint orientation still remains unclear due to contradicting results at baseline and follow-up. The biomechanics of the adolescent serve, specifically peak leg, trunk and racquet kinematics and kinetics, were not related to the presence of pars abnormalities. However, there was evidence to suggest that the timing of these peak mechanics are. Players with pars abnormalities entered peak right knee flexion and peak lumbar right lateral flexion earlier than those without pars abnormalities. Also, the players with pars abnormalities entered the trophy position (racquet ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | thesis |
| وصف الملف: | text |
| اللغة: | English |
| العلاقة: | https://vuir.vu.edu.au/41270Test/; https://vuir.vu.edu.au/41270/18/CONNOLLY%20Molly-thesis_Redacted.pdfTest; Connolly, Molly Ann (2020) An interdisciplinary approach to better understanding low back pain in elite adolescent tennis players. PhD thesis, Victoria University. |
| الإتاحة: | https://vuir.vu.edu.au/41270Test/ https://vuir.vu.edu.au/41270/18/CONNOLLY%20Molly-thesis_Redacted.pdfTest |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.56859707 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |