Correlates of shoulder pain in wheelchair basketball players from the Japanese national team: A cross-sectional study

Abstract

Because top male wheelchair basketball players have a higher risk of shoulder pain than female players, daily care of shoulder and periodic medical checkups are needed, especially for older male players with lower ability and more experience.

Expert’s opinion of a home-based exercise program for shoulder pain prevention: application in wheelchair basketball players.

“…In contrast, other study specifies that older males have a higher risk of SP (Tsunoda, Mutsuzaki, Hotta, Tachibana, Shimizu, et al, 2016).…”

Effects of a therapeutic exercise program for injuries prevention in wheelchair basketball (WB) players = Efectividad de un programa de ejercicios terapéutico para la prevención de lesiones de jugadores de baloncesto en silla de ruedas (BSR)

“…According to previous researches, elite females and males WB players report many injuries such as ischial deep tissue injury (Mutsuzaki, Tachibana, Shimizu, Hotta, Fukaya, Karasawa, et al, 2014;Shimizu, Mutsuzaki, Tachibana, Tsunoda, Hotta, Fukaya, et al, 2017), upper limbs muscle strength alterations (Akınoğlu & Kocahan, 2017). Also, high prevalence of SP and rotator cuff pathology were found (Lim, Yoo, Lee, Lee, & Kwon, 2014) and the difference of the risk of SP between males and females (Tsunoda et al, 2016;. In this regard, many studies are developed in this population including the evaluation and prevention of shoulder injury in collegiate WB payers (Wilroy & Hibberd, 2017).…”

“…For these reason, the presented SHEP appears as a convenient tool to maintain the shoulder condition during the trainings process, where players realize a high level of training, high impact loading and repeated actions that can develop injuries Some studies (Nawoczenski et al, 2006;Mulroy et al, 2011;Van Straaten et al, 2014;Satyavanshi et al, 2017;Mulroy et al, 2017) show how exercise program could influence in SP in wheelchair population. On other hand, previous researches (Tsunoda et al, 2016;Shimizu et al, 2017;Akınoğlu & Kocahan, 2017) are developed in elite WB population including the evaluation and prevention of shoulder injury in collegiate WB payers (Wilroy & Hibberd, 2017). Nonetheless, this study implemented the SHEP International Doctoral Dissertation to maintain/improve shoulder condition of the elite WB players in this particular context working in line with teams´ technical strategy.…”

“…Both, novice and elite WB players experience soft tissue injuries to the upper limb specifically in WB (Curtis et al, 1995;Curtis, 1997). In contrast, other study specifies that older males have a higher risk of SP (Tsunoda, Mutsuzaki, Hotta, Tachibana, Shimizu, et al, 2016…”

“…In this line, Larsen, Bruun, Hansen, Hansen and Juul-Kristensen, 2015developed the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Danish version of the WUSPI. This questionnaire has been used in different studies, also in a sample of WB players (Curtis & Black, 1999;Finley & Rogers, 2004;Samuelsson et al, 2004;Yildirim et al, 2010;Van Straaten et al, 2014;Tsunoda et al 2016;Rice & Rice, 2017). Previous studies (Arroyo & González, 2009;Curtis et al, 1995;Park & Cho, 2013;Vij, Kataria, & Bansal, 2015) not include specific items to assess SP in concrete sport specific skills during WB competition and training.…”