作者
Arnlaug Wangensteen, Emad Almusa, Sirine Boukarroum, Abdulaziz Farooq, Bruce Hamilton, Rodney Whiteley, Roald Bahr, Johannes L Tol
发表日期
2015/12/1
期刊
British Journal of Sports Medicine
卷号
49
期号
24
页码范围
1579-1587
出版商
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
简介
Background
MRI is frequently used in addition to clinical evaluation for predicting time to return to sport (RTS) after acute hamstring injury. However, the additional value of MRI to patient history taking and clinical examination remains unknown and is debated.
Aim
To prospectively investigate the predictive value of patient history and clinical examination at baseline alone and the additional predictive value of MRI findings for time to RTS using multivariate analysis while controlling for treatment confounders.
Methods
Male athletes (N=180) with acute onset posterior thigh pain underwent standardised patient history, clinical and MRI examinations within 5 days, and time to RTS was registered. A general linear model was constructed to assess the associations between RTS and the potential baseline predictors. A manual backward stepwise technique was used to keep treatment variables fixed.
Results
In the first …
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