A5009413558- Sports injuries and prevention
- Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques
- Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
- Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
- Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
- Surgical Sutures and Adhesives
- Reconstructive Surgery and Microvascular Techniques
- Hip disorders and treatments
- Sports Performance and Training
- Orthopedic Infections and Treatments
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Tendon Structure and Treatment
- Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Foot and Ankle Surgery
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries
- Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments
- Surgical site infection prevention
- Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
UCLA Medical Center
2025
Los Angeles Medical Center
2025
University of California, Los Angeles
2025
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2020-2024
Straub Medical Center
2020-2023
Mayo Clinic Hospital
2023
Queen's Medical Center
2017
Concussions have previously been shown to persistent neurological changes represented by altered reaction time and postural stability in high-level athletes. The effects of concussions on professional basketball players' performance subsequent injuries during the 90 days after return play (RTP) not investigated. purpose this study was evaluate player statistical risk musculoskeletal (MSK) injury within RTP from a diagnosed concussion. It hypothesized that concussion, players would be at...
Ankle injuries are more common in the National Basketball Association (NBA) compared with other professional sports.The purpose of this study was to report incidence and associated risk factors ankle NBA athletes. It hypothesized that an increased physiologic burden, such as minutes per game (MPG), usage rate, lower extremity injury, would be injury time loss.Descriptive epidemiology study.Ankle data from 2015-2016 through 2020-2021 seasons were evaluated. The truncated 2019-2020 season due...
Health and safety concerns surrounding the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led National Basketball Association (NBA) to condense accelerate 2020 season. Although prior literature has suggested that inadequate rest may lead an increased injury risk, unique circumstances this season offer a opportunity evaluate player in setting of reduced interval rest.We hypothesized condensed NBA resulted overall risk as compared with 2015 2018 seasons.Descriptive epidemiology study.A publicly...
Shoulder and elbow function is essential to basic basketball actions. Outside of anterior shoulder instability, injuries in these joints are not well characterized National Basketball Association (NBA) players.To describe the epidemiology associated risk factors NBA players identify that influence player performance upon return play.Descriptive study.Historical injury data from 2015-2020 seasons were retrieved Pro Sports Transactions, a public online database. An was defined as...
To determine structural knee injury rates and to identify risk factors the number of games missed associated with these injuries in National Basketball Association (NBA) players from 2015 2020 seasons.Publicly available player records active NBA between seasons (excluding shortened 2019 season) were reviewed a missing one or more games. Player demographics, anthropometric measurements, statistics, characteristics, history other lower-extremity recorded. We sought having bivariate analysis...
To characterize the prevalence and incidence of in-game hand wrist injuries in National Basketball Association (NBA), to determine factors associated with an equal or greater player efficiency rating (PER), true shooting percentage (TS%) 2 years after a injury using large-scale national database NBA players.Injury data from seasons 2015-2016 2020-2021, exclusion 2019-2020 because abbreviated play due coronavirus disease 2019, were extracted public online database, Pro Sports Transactions....
To characterize quadriceps tendon injuries over 30 National Basketball Association (NBA) seasons and assess the effects on player performance upon return to play.Partial complete tears in NBA players between 1990-1991 2021-2022 were queried from a publicly available database. The primary outcomes changes statistics obtained each player's preindex season first 2 postindex seasons. These interseason compared with of healthy control cohort. Each injured was matched controls using position,...
Objectives: Injuries to the foot and ankle are more common in National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball compared other professional sports. The goal of this study is report incidence associated risk factors injuries NBA athletes. Methods: Foot injury data from 2015-16 through 2020-21 seasons was queried verified using a publicly available database. truncated 2019-20 season omitted due COVID-19 pandemic. primary outcome injuries, reported per 1000 game exposures (GEs). Secondary...