Performance Is Regained Within 2 Seasons After Quadriceps Tendon Tears in National Basketball Association Players

Morikawa, Landon; Tummala, Sailesh V.; Brinkman, Joseph C.; Chhabra, Anikar

doi:10.1016/j.asmr.2022.09.009

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“… 5 These findings largely parallel studies of other NBA injuries, in which TS% was largely unaffected after injury. 23 The findings in this study found that younger players who played fewer minutes per game were more likely to return to baseline or improved TS% by 2 years after injury. It remains unclear why a specific improvement in TS% was observed after 2 seasons after nondominant shoulder injury; however, it does suggest that players with this pathology are less likely to have long-lasting implications on performance.…”

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“…This source has been cited in previous NBA-related studies. 4 , 20 , 23 All injury data were independently verified through official team press releases and media reports. Injury duration was further verified through player game logs on Basketball-Reference.com—a website sourced by the official stats partner of the NBA, Sportradar US (Sportradar).…”

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Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in National Basketball Association Athletes and Their Effects on Player Performance

Morikawa,

Tummala,

Brinkman

et al. 2023

Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine

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Background: Shoulder and elbow function is essential to basic basketball actions. Outside of anterior shoulder instability, injuries in these joints are not well characterized in National Basketball Association (NBA) players. Purpose: To describe the epidemiology and associated risk factors of shoulder and elbow injuries in NBA players and identify factors that influence player performance upon return to play. Study Design: Descriptive epidemiology study. Methods: Historical injury data from the 2015-2020 NBA seasons were retrieved from Pro Sports Transactions, a public online database. An injury was defined as a health-related concern resulting in an absence of ≥1 NBA games. Primary measures included pre- and postinjury player efficiency rating (PER) and true shooting percentage (TS%) with interquartile ranges (IQRs), stratified by extremity dominance. Multivariate logistic regression analyses with stepwise regression were performed to identify risk factors associated with return-to-play performance. Results: A total of 192 shoulder and elbow injuries were sustained among 126 NBA athletes, with incidence rates of 1.11 per 1000 game exposures (GEs) and 0.30 per 1000 GEs, respectively. Sprain/strain and general soreness were the most common injury types in both the shoulder and the elbow. In the 2 years after injury, baseline PER was achieved in all groups, except for players with dominant shoulder injuries (baseline PER, 16 [IQR, 14-18] vs 2-year PER, 13 [IQR 11-16]; P = .012). Younger age was associated with quicker return to baseline PER (odds ratio, 0.77 [95% CI, 0.67-0.88]). Shoulder and elbow injuries did not negatively influence TS% upon return to play (baseline TS%, 0.55% [IQR, 0.51%-0.58%] vs 1-year TS%, 0.55% [IQR, 0.52%-0.58%]; P = .13). Conclusion: Dominant shoulder injuries negatively influenced PER during the first 2 seasons upon return to play in NBA players. Therefore, expectations that players with this type of injury immediately achieve baseline statistical production should be tempered. Shooting accuracy appears to remain unaffected after shoulder or elbow injury.

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