著者
Naoto Suzue Tetsuya Matsuura Toshiyuki Iwame Kosaku Higashino Toshinori Sakai Daisuke Hamada Tomohiro Goto Yoichiro Takata Toshihiko Nishisho Yuichiro Goda Takahiko Tsutsui Ichiro Tonogai Ryo Miyagi Mitsunobu Abe Masatoshi Morimoto Kazuaki Mineta Tetsuya Kimura Akihiro Nitta Tadahiro Higuchi Shingo Hama Subash C. Jha Rui Takahashi Shoji Fukuta Koichi Sairyo
出版者
徳島大学医学部
雑誌
The Journal of Medical Investigation (ISSN:13431420)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.62, no.3.4, pp.109-113, 2015 (Released:2015-09-18)
参考文献数
39
被引用文献数
2 14

Athletes sometimes experience overuse injuries. To diagnose these injuries, ultrasonography is often more useful than plain radiography, computed tomography (CT), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Ultrasonography can show both bone and soft tissue from various angles as needed, providing great detail in many cases. In conditions such as osteochondrosis or enthesopathies such as Osgood-Schlatter disease, Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease, bipartite patella, osteochondritis dissecans of the knee, painful accessory navicular,and jumper's knee, ultrasonography can reveal certain types of bony irregularities or neovascularization of the surrounding tissue. In patients of enthesopathy, ultrasonography can show the degenerative changes at the insertion of the tendon. Given its usefulness in treatment, ultrasonography is expected to become essential in the management of overuse injuries affecting the lower limb in athletes. J. Med. Invest. 62: 109-113, August, 2015
著者
Toshiyuki Iwame Tetsuya Matsuura Naoto Suzue Shinji Kashiwaguchi Takenobu Iwase Shoji Fukuta Daisuke Hamada Tomohiro Goto Takahiko Tsutsui Keizo Wada Hiroshi Egawa Akihiro Nagamachi Koichi Sairyo
出版者
徳島大学医学部
雑誌
The Journal of Medical Investigation (ISSN:13431420)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.63, no.3.4, pp.171-174, 2016 (Released:2016-09-17)
参考文献数
11
被引用文献数
10

Purpose: Our aim was to examine the outcome of an elbow check-up system for youth baseball players. In particular, we investigated the nature of elbow injuries in youth baseball players with elbow pain and ultrasonographic findings of the capitellum. Materials and Methods: A total of 1605 players participating in the regional summer championship in July 2013 underwent a questionnaire survey, physical examination, ultrasound imaging, and radiographic examination. Results: A total of 499 (31.1%) players reported episodes of elbow pain, of whom 320 (64.1%) had abnormal findings on physical examination, and 115 (35.9%) agreed to undergo radiography. Among them, 98 (85.2%) exhibited radiographic abnormalities. On the initial ultrasonography screening, 60 (3.7%) players had an abnormal finding and 55 (91.7%) agreed to undergo radiography. Among them, 26 (47.3%) were found to have osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) of the capitellum on radiographs. Conclusions: About 30% of youth baseball players had episodes of elbow pain, and 64.1% of players with elbow pain had abnormal findings on physical examination. Furthermore, 85.2% of subjects who underwent radiographic examination exhibited radiographic abnormalities. About 4% of young baseball players had an abnormal finding on initial ultrasonography screening, and nearly 50% of them had OCD of the capitellum on radiographs. J. Med. Invest. 63: 171-174, August, 2016