Performance Is Regained Within 2 Seasons After Quadriceps Tendon Tears in National Basketball Association Players.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To characterize quadriceps tendon injuries over 30 National Basketball Association (NBA) seasons and assess the effects on player performance upon return to play.

Methods

Partial and complete quadriceps tendon tears in NBA players between the 1990-1991 and 2021-2022 seasons were queried from a publicly available database. The primary outcomes were changes in player performance statistics obtained from each player's preindex season and first 2 postindex seasons. These interseason changes were compared with the changes of a healthy control cohort. Each injured player was matched with 2 controls using position, career length and win shares by season. The secondary measure of this study was the rate of return to play.

Results

Nine quadriceps tendon tears (6 partia

SUBMITTER: Morikawa L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9791805 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature