IX INTERNATIONAL BALTIC SPORTS MEDICINE CONFERENCE 20th-23th August 2015 Tartu, Estonia and its

IS ELITE ATHLETES’ BACK PAIN & INJURY “SPORT TYPE SPECIFIC”?

Wang V.C.1, Appiah -Dwomoh E.1, Silis M.1, Mayer F.1, Wippert P.M.2 1Department

of Sport Medicine & Sport Orthopaedics, University Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany 2Department of Sociology of Physical Activity & Health, University Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

CLINICAL EXERCISE SCIENCE

IS ELITE ATHLETES’ BACK PAIN & INJURY “SPORT TYPE SPECIFIC”?

INTRODUCTION  The prevalence of back pain is increasing in athletes, particularly in elite level. (Lawrence, Greene & Grauer, 2006)  lack of evidence which type of sport activities, training or demographic factors are related.  New evaluation tool “Risk-IQ” available .(Wang, Mayer, Ottawa & Wippert, 2015) RESEARCH QUESTION #1: Is elite athletes’ back pain & injury sport type specifically related? RESEARCH QUESTION #2: Does back pain & injury of athlete related to experience, age and gender? RESEARCH QUESTION #3: Which sport types are higher and which are lower of back pain risks? METHODS/Subject     

66 German (DE) (f/m: 32/34; 26.0±7.6years) and 269 Taiwanese (TW) (f/m: 121/148 age=23.2±6.9years) Elite athletes recruited from national sport training centres, federations and universities. Inclusion criteria: current/retired national team athlete, trained for international competitions of Olympic sports. Two adapted sport categories (1. Format, 2. Location/Locomotion) were introduced for sport type categorization. Mann-Whitney U test (2 groups), Kruskal-Wallis test (k groups) and Spearman correlation. (p>

“Team- No Contact”

(Pairwise comparisons)

>> “Team-Combat” >> “Team-Combat” >> “Team-Contact” >> “Team-Combat”

“Individual- No Contact” (p< 0.01) “Individual- Combat”

(p< 0.01)

“Team Contact”

(p< 0.01)

“Individual- No Contact” (p< 0.05

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IS ELITE ATHLETES’ BACK PAIN & INJURY “SPORT TYPE SPECIFIC”?

RESULT Research Question #1 (Is elite athletes’ back pain & injury sport type specifically related?)

 Sport Location categorization: “On-Ice” (5.40±7.6, n=20) (p< 0.01)

>> “On-Water” (1.00±1.8, n=33).

(Pairwise comparisons)

>> “On-Ice” >> “On-Snow” >> “On-Snow” >> “On-Snow” >> “On-Ice”

“On-Land with Locomotion” (p< 0.01) “On-Land w/o Locomotion” (p< 0.01) “On-Land with Locomotion” (p< 0.01) “On-Land w/o Locomotion” (p< 0.01)

“On-Water”

“On –Land with Locomotion”

(p< 0.01)

>> “On-Water”

(p< 0.05) VW 1

IS ELITE ATHLETES’ BACK PAIN & INJURY “SPORT TYPE SPECIFIC”?

RESULT Research Question #2 (Does back pain & injury of athlete related to experience, age and gender?)  Back pain/Injury showed NO SIGNIFICANT difference on Gender

 Back pain/injury showed SIGNIFICANT difference on

 Age (in 5-year groups) (p