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Trunk Muscle Activity During Drop Jump Performance In Adolescent Athletes With Back Pain, T. Palsson, J. Caneiro, R. Hirata, D. Griffin, William Gibson, Mervyn Travers
Trunk Muscle Activity During Drop Jump Performance In Adolescent Athletes With Back Pain, T. Palsson, J. Caneiro, R. Hirata, D. Griffin, William Gibson, Mervyn Travers
Physiotherapy Papers and Journal Articles
It was with great interest we read the recently published article “Trunk Muscle Activity during Drop Jump Performance in Adolescent Athletes with Back Pain.” Investigating back pain (BP) in adolescents is commendable as there is growing evidence that for many, an experience of BP as early as 14 years of age may relate to ongoing pain in adulthood (Coenen et al., 2017). Indeed, the conventional narrative is changing as individual physical factors such as posture, use of schoolbags, and hypermobility are only weakly associated with adolescent BP. Rather, factors which predict BP at a young age are considered to …