Technology Used in the Prevention and Treatment of Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in the Overhead Athlete
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INJURIES IN OVERHEAD ATHLETES (J DINES AND C CAMP, SECTION EDITORS)
Technology Used in the Prevention and Treatment of Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in the Overhead Athlete Evan E. Vellios 1 & Sridhar Pinnamaneni 1 & Christopher L. Camp 2 & Joshua S. Dines 1
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Abstract Purpose of Review To review the current technology available for the prevention and treatment of shoulder and elbow injuries in the overhead athlete. Recent Findings Shoulder and elbow injuries are common in recreational and high-level overhead athletes. Injury prevention in these athletes include identifying modifiable risk factors, offering effective preventative training programs, and establishing safe return-tosport criteria. The advent and use of technologies and wearable devices with concomitant development of software and data analytic programs has significantly changed the role of sports technology in injury identification and prevention. Over the last few decades, leveraging new technologies to better understand and treat patients has become an increasing focus of healthcare. Technologies currently being applied to the treatment of the overhead athlete include kinesiotaping, heart rate monitors, accelerometers/gyroscopes, dynamometers/force plates, camera-based monitoring systems (optical motion analysis), and inertial sensor monitoring units. Summary Advances in technology have made it possible to acquire large amounts of data on athletes that may be used to guide treatment and injury prevention programs; however, literature validating the clinical efficacy of many of these technologies is limited. Further research is needed to continue to allow team physicians to provide better, cost-efficient, and individualized care to the overhead athlete using technology. Keywords Technology . Shoulder and elbow . Analytics . Sports science . Overhead athlete . Injury prevention
Introduction Shoulder and elbow injuries are common in recreational and high-level overhead athletes. There have been many This article is part of the Topical Collection on Injuries in Overhead Athletes * Evan E. Vellios [email protected] Sridhar Pinnamaneni [email protected] Christopher L. Camp [email protected] Joshua S. Dines [email protected] 1
Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery Service, Sports Medicine Institute, Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
approaches to understand and treat these injuries. Overhead athletes have adaptive changes in their shoulder and elbow biomechanics and movement strategies. Understanding these adaptive changes is important when considering the pathophysiology behind overload injuries of the shoulder and elbow in these populations. Injury prevention in these athletes include identifying modifiable risk factors, offering effective preventative training programs, and establishing safe returnto-sport criteria. The advent and use of techn
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