Risk Factors for the Development of Shoulder Pain in Elite Sled Hockey Players.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Shoulder pain is one of the most common injuries in adaptive athletes. There are minimal prior studies that investigate shoulder pain prevalence and associated risk factors in sled hockey players.

Objective

To characterize the prevalence of shoulder pain in elite-level adaptive sled hockey athletes and identify associated risk factors.

Design

Cross-sectional observational study.

Setting

2019 USA Sled Hockey Classic in Chicago, IL from 7 February 2019 to 10 February 2019.

Participants

Eighty-two elite sled hockey athletes who participated in a nationally sanctioned sports event.

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main outcome measures

The primary outcome of the study was to describe the experience of shoulder pain using player-reported

SUBMITTER: Spangenberg J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8471227 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature