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Management Of Morel-Lavallee Lesion Of The Knee: Twenty-Seven Cases In The National Football League, Samir G. Tejwani, Steven B. Cohen, James P. Bradley
Management Of Morel-Lavallee Lesion Of The Knee: Twenty-Seven Cases In The National Football League, Samir G. Tejwani, Steven B. Cohen, James P. Bradley
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty Papers
BACKGROUND: The Morel-Lavallee lesion is a closed degloving injury most commonly described in the region of the hip joint after blunt trauma. It also occurs in the knee as a result of shearing trauma during football and is a distinct lesion from prepatellar bursitis and quadriceps contusion.
PURPOSE: To review the authors' experience with Morel-Lavallee lesion of the knee in the elite contact athlete to construct a diagnostic and treatment algorithm.
STUDY DESIGN: Case series; Level of evidence, 4.
METHODS: Twenty-seven knees in 24 players were identified from 1 National Football League team's annual injury database as having sustained a …
Rotator Cuff Contusions Of The Shoulder In Professional Football Players: Epidemiology And Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings, Steven B. Cohen, Jeffrey D. Towers, James P. Bradley
Rotator Cuff Contusions Of The Shoulder In Professional Football Players: Epidemiology And Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings, Steven B. Cohen, Jeffrey D. Towers, James P. Bradley
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty Papers
BACKGROUND: No published reports have studied the epidemiology and magnetic resonance imaging findings associated with rotator cuff contusions of the shoulder in professional football players.
PURPOSE: To determine a single professional football team's incidence, treatment, and magnetic resonance imaging appearance of players sustaining rotator cuff contusions of the shoulder.
STUDY DESIGN: Case series; Level of evidence, 4.
METHODS: From 1999 to 2005, a North American professional football team's injury records were retrospectively reviewed for athletes who had sustained a rotator cuff contusion of the shoulder during in-season participation. Those patients who had magnetic resonance imaging of the shoulder with a …