Traumatic muscular pathology is frequent in the athlete. Usually, these lesions heal
spontaneously leaving no sequelae. One must be able to predict how long the healing …

Purpose of review The aim of this review is to discuss the most common muscle injuries in
sports, state-of-the-science classification, and return to play recommendations, focused on …

Sports-related injuries of the lower extremity are frequent. Before magnetic resonance (MR)
imaging was available, ultrasound, radionuclide scintigraphy and computed tomography …

Muscle injuries are common and often occur during sport or training. The sonographic and
magnetic resonance (MR) imaging appearance of muscle injures help to categorize the …

In sports-related muscle injuries, the main goal of the sports medicine physician is to return
the athlete to competition—balanced against the need to prevent the injury from worsening …

Muscle injuries are common in the sporting population. Imaging plays a vital role in the
detection and/or characterization of the injury pattern as well as assessing complications …

Skeletal muscle comprises the largest tissue mass in the body, accounting for 40–45% of
body mass (Best and Garret 1994; Garrett and Best 1994). The muscle-tendon unit (MTU) is …

In comparison with all of the other imaging modalities available, magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) has excellent intrinsic contrast. The spatial resolution of MRI has been …

Muscle injuries are common, particularly in sports medicine. Muscle injuries comprise those
due to indirect trauma, including delayed onset muscle soreness and muscle strains, and …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly being used to evaluate muscle injuries
because of its unparalleled anatomic resolution and high sensitivity in detecting acute and …