The Development and Validation of a Functional Assessment Tool for the Upper Extremity in the Overhead Athlete

Abstract

The new patient-reported instrument is valid and responsive in the evaluation of overhead athletes. Reliability was also demonstrated for the 13-item pilot questionnaire. The results support its use for the functional assessment of overhead athletes in future studies.

Return to Play After Type II Superior Labral Anterior-Posterior Lesion Repairs in Athletes: A Systematic Review

“…The authors used the ASES scoring system [27], as did the majority of the studies included in our review. However, they also included the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic Shoulder and Elbow score (KJOC), which has been proposed as a more specific score for overhead athletes [2]. The authors found 84% of patients were able to return to their previous level of play after an average of 11.7 months' recovery, and 93% of patients believed they had ''good-to-excellent'' patient satisfaction.…”

Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic overhead athlete scores in asymptomatic professional baseball pitchers

“…It has been validated with the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) score as well as the DASH sports/performing arts module 1,2 and has been shown to be more sensitive in overhead athletes than the American Shoulder and Elbow Society (ASES) scale 4 . In addition, the KJOC score has been shown to effectively distinguish between professional baseball players playing without pain, playing with pain, and not playing due to pain.…”

“…In addition, the KJOC score has been shown to effectively distinguish between professional baseball players playing without pain, playing with pain, and not playing due to pain. 1,2 The KJOC questionnaire has also been used to evaluate Little League baseball players with recent medial-sided elbow pain with overhead throwing. 5 An average score of 60.3 out of 100 was measured for these players.…”

Moneyball

“…A group from the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic, including Dr Jobe himself, has developed and validated an outcome score designed specifically to evaluate function and performance in overhead athletes. 1 They have found that this score is able to discriminate baseball players who were never injured from those who had Using the MLB database, team websites, and publically available injury reports, Erickson et al 7 were able to collect information on 179 MLB pitchers who had undergone UCL reconstruction and compare them with a matched set of controls. Their findings should be heartening to a professional pitcher contemplating Tommy John surgery.…”