Meniscal Injuries in the Olympic and Elite Athletes.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Elite and Olympian athletes are often stretching the upper limits of normal physiology and biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system in their efforts to excel in their sport. For them to get back to their sport at the same level after injury, the management, repair techniques, and rehabilitation protocols should be robust to permit healing of tissues to allow supra-normal loading and performance. The knee and the meniscus are commonly injured in these sports. Yet, the incidence, mechanisms, types of injuries to the meniscus, and their management are not known across different sports in the Olympics.

Methods

We set out to look into the incidence and the trends of publications on meniscal injuries of the knee in Olympic games. A search of the PubMed and Scopus fo

SUBMITTER: Vaishya R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7205913 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature