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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 7/2018

Open Access 01-07-2018 | Spine

No difference in prevalence of spine and hip pain in young Elite skiers

Authors: Carl Todd, Anna Swärd Aminoff, Cecilia Agnvall, Olof Thoreson, Leif Swärd, Jon Karlsson, Adad Baranto

Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Issue 7/2018

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Abstract

Purpose

To investigate the prevalence between back and hip pain in young Elite skiers.

Methods

Sample group (n = 102), consisted of young Elite skiers (n = 75) and age-matched non-athletes (n = 27), all completed a three-part back and hip pain questionnaire, Oswestry Disability Index and EuroQoL to evaluate general health, activity level, back and hip pain prevalence.

Results

No significant differences were shown for lifetime prevalence of back pain in the skiers (50%) compared with controls (44%) (n.s.). Duration of back pain for the skiers showed (30%) > 1 year, whilst (46%) > 5 years. A significant difference was shown with increased Visual Analogue Scale back pain levels for skiers 5.3 (SD 3.1) compared with controls 2.4 (SD 1.9, p = 0.025). No significant differences were shown for lifetime prevalence of hip pain in skiers (21%) compared with controls (8%) (n.s.).

Conclusion

Young Elite skiers are shown not to have increased lifetime prevalence for back and hip pain compared with a non-athletic control group.

Level of evidence

II.
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Metadata
Title
No difference in prevalence of spine and hip pain in young Elite skiers
Authors
Carl Todd
Anna Swärd Aminoff
Cecilia Agnvall
Olof Thoreson
Leif Swärd
Jon Karlsson
Adad Baranto
Publication date
01-07-2018
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy / Issue 7/2018
Print ISSN: 0942-2056
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7347
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-017-4733-1

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