Knee Injuries and Associated Risk Factors in National Basketball Association Athletes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine structural knee injury rates and to identify risk factors and the number of games missed associated with these injuries in National Basketball Association (NBA) players from the 2015 to 2020 seasons.

Methods

Publicly available player records of active NBA players between the 2015 and 2020 seasons (excluding the shortened 2019 season) were reviewed to identify players with a knee injury associated with missing one or more games. Player demographics, anthropometric measurements, statistics, injury characteristics, and history of other lower-extremity injuries were recorded. We sought factors associated with having a structural knee injury in bivariate analysis and multivariable logistic regression. Negative binomial regression was conducted to evaluate fac

SUBMITTER: Tummala SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9596890 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature