@article{ref1,
title="Musculoskeletal injuries among elite artistic and rhythmic Greek gymnasts: a ten-year study of 156 elite athletes",
journal="Acta orthopaedica Belgica",
year="2019",
author="Paxinos, Odysseas and Mitrogiannis, Leonidas and Papavasiliou, Athanasios and Manolarakis, Emmanouil and Siempenou, Aikaterini and Alexelis, Vasilis and Karavasili, Alexandra",
volume="85",
number="2",
pages="145-149",
abstract="Data on elite gymnast injuries outside North America is sparse. We report the injuries recorded over a period of 10 years in 156 Greek elite male and female gymnasts. A total of 2390 injuries were reported for a rate of 1,5 new injuries per year per athlete. Most commonly affected areas were the hip (18.5%), the ankle (16.5%), the lumbar spine (16%) and the foot (16%). The most frequent diagnosis was tendinitis (32%), followed by low back pain (20%), and sprains (12%). Fifteen athletes (9%) sustained serious injuries that required surgery. Rhythmic gymnasts had significantly more overuse type injuries compared to artistic gymnasts (p = 0.049). Gymnastics is a sport with a high incidence of musculoskeletal pathology that needs proper documentation in order to establish preventive measures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-6462",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}