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Low back pain status in elite and semi-elite Australian football codes: a cross-sectional survey of football (soccer), Australian rules, rugby league, rugby union and non-athletic controls
BACKGROUND: Our understanding of the effects of football code participation on low back pain (LBP) is limited. It is unclear whether LBP is more prevalent in athletic populations or differs between levels of competition. Thus it was the aim of this study to document and compare the prevalence, inten...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2674424/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19371446 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-10-38 |
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author | Hoskins, Wayne Pollard, Henry Daff, Chris Odell, Andrew Garbutt, Peter McHardy, Andrew Hardy, Kate Dragasevic, George |
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description | BACKGROUND: Our understanding of the effects of football code participation on low back pain (LBP) is limited. It is unclear whether LBP is more prevalent in athletic populations or differs between levels of competition. Thus it was the aim of this study to document and compare the prevalence, intensity, quality and frequency of LBP between elite and semi-elite male Australian football code participants and a non-athletic group. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of elite and semi-elite male Australian football code participants and a non-athletic group was performed. Participants completed a self-reported questionnaire incorporating the Quadruple Visual Analogue Scale (QVAS) and McGill Pain Questionnaire (short form) (MPQ-SF), along with additional questions adapted from an Australian epidemiological study. Respondents were 271 elite players (mean age 23.3, range 17–39), 360 semi-elite players (mean age 23.8, range 16–46) and 148 non-athletic controls (mean age 23.9, range 18–39). RESULTS: Groups were matched for age (p = 0.42) and experienced the same age of first onset LBP (p = 0.40). A significant linear increase in LBP from the non-athletic group, to the semi-elite and elite groups for the QVAS and the MPQ-SF was evident (p < 0.001). Elite subjects were more likely to experience more frequent (daily or weekly OR 1.77, 95% CI 1.29–2.42) and severe LBP (discomforting and greater OR 1.75, 95% CI 1.29–2.38). CONCLUSION: Foolers in Australia have significantly more severe and frequent LBP than a non-athletic group and this escalates with level of competition. |
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spelling | pubmed-26744242009-04-29 Low back pain status in elite and semi-elite Australian football codes: a cross-sectional survey of football (soccer), Australian rules, rugby league, rugby union and non-athletic controls Hoskins, Wayne Pollard, Henry Daff, Chris Odell, Andrew Garbutt, Peter McHardy, Andrew Hardy, Kate Dragasevic, George BMC Musculoskelet Disord Research Article BACKGROUND: Our understanding of the effects of football code participation on low back pain (LBP) is limited. It is unclear whether LBP is more prevalent in athletic populations or differs between levels of competition. Thus it was the aim of this study to document and compare the prevalence, intensity, quality and frequency of LBP between elite and semi-elite male Australian football code participants and a non-athletic group. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of elite and semi-elite male Australian football code participants and a non-athletic group was performed. Participants completed a self-reported questionnaire incorporating the Quadruple Visual Analogue Scale (QVAS) and McGill Pain Questionnaire (short form) (MPQ-SF), along with additional questions adapted from an Australian epidemiological study. Respondents were 271 elite players (mean age 23.3, range 17–39), 360 semi-elite players (mean age 23.8, range 16–46) and 148 non-athletic controls (mean age 23.9, range 18–39). RESULTS: Groups were matched for age (p = 0.42) and experienced the same age of first onset LBP (p = 0.40). A significant linear increase in LBP from the non-athletic group, to the semi-elite and elite groups for the QVAS and the MPQ-SF was evident (p < 0.001). Elite subjects were more likely to experience more frequent (daily or weekly OR 1.77, 95% CI 1.29–2.42) and severe LBP (discomforting and greater OR 1.75, 95% CI 1.29–2.38). CONCLUSION: Foolers in Australia have significantly more severe and frequent LBP than a non-athletic group and this escalates with level of competition. BioMed Central 2009-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2674424/ /pubmed/19371446 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-10-38 Text en Copyright © 2009 Hoskins et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hoskins, Wayne Pollard, Henry Daff, Chris Odell, Andrew Garbutt, Peter McHardy, Andrew Hardy, Kate Dragasevic, George Low back pain status in elite and semi-elite Australian football codes: a cross-sectional survey of football (soccer), Australian rules, rugby league, rugby union and non-athletic controls |
title | Low back pain status in elite and semi-elite Australian football codes: a cross-sectional survey of football (soccer), Australian rules, rugby league, rugby union and non-athletic controls |
title_full | Low back pain status in elite and semi-elite Australian football codes: a cross-sectional survey of football (soccer), Australian rules, rugby league, rugby union and non-athletic controls |
title_fullStr | Low back pain status in elite and semi-elite Australian football codes: a cross-sectional survey of football (soccer), Australian rules, rugby league, rugby union and non-athletic controls |
title_full_unstemmed | Low back pain status in elite and semi-elite Australian football codes: a cross-sectional survey of football (soccer), Australian rules, rugby league, rugby union and non-athletic controls |
title_short | Low back pain status in elite and semi-elite Australian football codes: a cross-sectional survey of football (soccer), Australian rules, rugby league, rugby union and non-athletic controls |
title_sort | low back pain status in elite and semi-elite australian football codes: a cross-sectional survey of football (soccer), australian rules, rugby league, rugby union and non-athletic controls |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2674424/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19371446 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-10-38 |
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