TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-reported jumpers’ knee is common in elite basketball athletes – But is it all patellar tendinopathy?
AU - Hannington, Madeline
AU - Docking, Sean
AU - Cook, Jill
AU - Edwards, Suzi
AU - Rio, Ebonie
PY - 2020/5
Y1 - 2020/5
N2 - Objectives: To describe the prevalence and pain location of self-reported patellar tendinopathy and patellar tendon abnormality in a male elite basketball population. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Pre-season tournament. Participants: Sixty male athletes from the Australian National Basketball League. Main outcome measures: Self-reported patellar tendinopathy (PT) using the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre Overuse Questionnaire (OSTRC). Pain location using pain mapping (dichotomised: focal/diffuse) and severity during the single leg decline squat. Ultrasound tissue characterisation scans of both patellar tendons. Results: Thirteen participants (22.7%) self-reported PT. Only 3 who reported PT had localised inferior pole pain. Thirty athletes reported pain during the decline squat, 15 described focal pain; 10 diffuse pain (5 missing data). Those with diffuse pain had greater years played [Md = 21 (13–24), n = 10 than focal pain (Md = 12 (7–26), n = 15), p = 0.042, r = 0.3]. Bilateral tendon abnormality was found in 45% of athletes and 15% had unilateral tendon abnormality. Conclusion: Elite male basketball athletes self-reporting PT had heterogeneity in pain location. When focal pain with loading was used as a primary definition of PT, ‘jumpers’ knee’ was not common in this cohort. This study found that abnormality of the patellar tendon was common and did not correlate with symptoms.
AB - Objectives: To describe the prevalence and pain location of self-reported patellar tendinopathy and patellar tendon abnormality in a male elite basketball population. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Pre-season tournament. Participants: Sixty male athletes from the Australian National Basketball League. Main outcome measures: Self-reported patellar tendinopathy (PT) using the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre Overuse Questionnaire (OSTRC). Pain location using pain mapping (dichotomised: focal/diffuse) and severity during the single leg decline squat. Ultrasound tissue characterisation scans of both patellar tendons. Results: Thirteen participants (22.7%) self-reported PT. Only 3 who reported PT had localised inferior pole pain. Thirty athletes reported pain during the decline squat, 15 described focal pain; 10 diffuse pain (5 missing data). Those with diffuse pain had greater years played [Md = 21 (13–24), n = 10 than focal pain (Md = 12 (7–26), n = 15), p = 0.042, r = 0.3]. Bilateral tendon abnormality was found in 45% of athletes and 15% had unilateral tendon abnormality. Conclusion: Elite male basketball athletes self-reporting PT had heterogeneity in pain location. When focal pain with loading was used as a primary definition of PT, ‘jumpers’ knee’ was not common in this cohort. This study found that abnormality of the patellar tendon was common and did not correlate with symptoms.
KW - Basketball
KW - Pain mapping
KW - Patellar tendinopathy
KW - Ultrasound
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079697129&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ptsp.2020.01.012
DO - 10.1016/j.ptsp.2020.01.012
M3 - Article
C2 - 32088601
AN - SCOPUS:85079697129
SN - 1466-853X
VL - 43
SP - 58
EP - 64
JO - Physical Therapy in Sport
JF - Physical Therapy in Sport
ER -