Complete Distal Rupture of the Rectus Femoris in an Elite Football Player: A Non-operative Treatment

Although muscle injuries represent the most frequent injury in professional football, isolated complete distal ruptures of the rectus femoris (RF) muscle are rare, and there is no consensus on their treatment and return to play (RTP). In this article, we report a clinical case of successful non-surg...

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Autores principales: Fernandes, Alexandre, Pinto, Julio, Cunha, Pedro, Duarte, Carlos, Estaca, Alexandre, Pereira, Tiago, Bettencourt, Mónica, Candelária, Isabel, E Silva, Miguel Reis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10584386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37859921
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45494
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author Fernandes, Alexandre
Pinto, Julio
Cunha, Pedro
Duarte, Carlos
Estaca, Alexandre
Pereira, Tiago
Bettencourt, Mónica
Candelária, Isabel
E Silva, Miguel Reis
author_facet Fernandes, Alexandre
Pinto, Julio
Cunha, Pedro
Duarte, Carlos
Estaca, Alexandre
Pereira, Tiago
Bettencourt, Mónica
Candelária, Isabel
E Silva, Miguel Reis
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description Although muscle injuries represent the most frequent injury in professional football, isolated complete distal ruptures of the rectus femoris (RF) muscle are rare, and there is no consensus on their treatment and return to play (RTP). In this article, we report a clinical case of successful non-surgical management of an RF grade 4c muscle injury in a professional football player, in which the athlete was able to RTP 21 weeks after the injury, had no re-injury >1 year after RTP, and is playing at an elite level in the Portuguese Football First League.
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spelling pubmed-105843862023-10-19 Complete Distal Rupture of the Rectus Femoris in an Elite Football Player: A Non-operative Treatment Fernandes, Alexandre Pinto, Julio Cunha, Pedro Duarte, Carlos Estaca, Alexandre Pereira, Tiago Bettencourt, Mónica Candelária, Isabel E Silva, Miguel Reis Cureus Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Although muscle injuries represent the most frequent injury in professional football, isolated complete distal ruptures of the rectus femoris (RF) muscle are rare, and there is no consensus on their treatment and return to play (RTP). In this article, we report a clinical case of successful non-surgical management of an RF grade 4c muscle injury in a professional football player, in which the athlete was able to RTP 21 weeks after the injury, had no re-injury >1 year after RTP, and is playing at an elite level in the Portuguese Football First League. Cureus 2023-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10584386/ /pubmed/37859921 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45494 Text en Copyright © 2023, Fernandes et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Fernandes, Alexandre
Pinto, Julio
Cunha, Pedro
Duarte, Carlos
Estaca, Alexandre
Pereira, Tiago
Bettencourt, Mónica
Candelária, Isabel
E Silva, Miguel Reis
Complete Distal Rupture of the Rectus Femoris in an Elite Football Player: A Non-operative Treatment
title Complete Distal Rupture of the Rectus Femoris in an Elite Football Player: A Non-operative Treatment
title_full Complete Distal Rupture of the Rectus Femoris in an Elite Football Player: A Non-operative Treatment
title_fullStr Complete Distal Rupture of the Rectus Femoris in an Elite Football Player: A Non-operative Treatment
title_full_unstemmed Complete Distal Rupture of the Rectus Femoris in an Elite Football Player: A Non-operative Treatment
title_short Complete Distal Rupture of the Rectus Femoris in an Elite Football Player: A Non-operative Treatment
title_sort complete distal rupture of the rectus femoris in an elite football player: a non-operative treatment
topic Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10584386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37859921
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45494
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