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Functional Movement Screening as a Predictor of Injury in High School Basketball Athletes
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Wieczorkowski, Michael P.
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Year and Degree
2010, Master of Science, University of Toledo, Exercise Science.
Abstract
Objective: To determine if there is a significant difference in FMSTM scores between athletes that were injured and athletes that were not injured during the high school basketball season. A cut-off score that maximizes specificity and sensitivity of the FMSTM will also be determined. Design, Setting, and Data Source: Testing and data collection was performed at local Toledo area high schools. The testing included the girls’ and boys’ junior varsity and varsity teams with the ages of the athletes ranging from 14-18 years old. Before testing, each subject completed a questionnaire providing demographics such as age, gender, previous/current injuries, brace/tape use, and participation in conditioning programs. The data collected was separated into three groups: all subjects, subjects with previous history of lower extremity injury, and subjects without previous history of lower extremity injury. To determine if there is a significant difference in FMSTM scores between athletes that were injured and athletes that were not injured during the high school basketball season, a dependent t-test was performed on each group with significance set at the P< .05 level. To determine cut-off scores, a receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) curve was used for each group to plot sensitivity (true positives) versus 1-specificty (false positives) for the screening test. A 2x2 contingency table was produced to dichotomize the athletes that suffered an injury and those who did not as well as those who were above or below the cut-off score. From the table, odds ratios, likelihood ratios, sensitivity and specificity were calculated. To estimate the amount of influence an athlete’s FMSTM score has on the probability of suffering an injury, post-test odds and probability were calculated. Results: A total of 82 athletes that completed the 2009-2010 basketball season who participated in the pre-season FMSTM screening met our inclusion criteria. Of the 82 subjects, 20 of them suffered an injury that caused them to be removed from participation during the season. For subjects without a previous history of lower extremity injury, a t-test revealed a significant difference between the means scores of those injured (14.2±1.8) and those who were not injured (15.6±2.0) (t = 2.2; df = 52; p = .034). Analysis of the ROC curve showed that a cut-off score of 14.5 maximized the sensitivity and specificity of this group’s data. The odds ratio for this group showed that athletes are almost 6 times more likely to get injured during the season if they score 14 or below on the FMSTM. The post-test probability for subjects with no previous history of lower extremity injury was calculated to be 34%, an increase of 19% from pre-test probability. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that high school basketball athletes who do not have previous history of injury and score a 14 or below on the FMSTM have a higher chance of suffering an injury over the period of the high school basketball season. However, the FMSTM did not have the ability to predict injury to high school basketball athletes with prior history of lower extremity injury. Clinicians should consider implementing the FMSTM to screen for first time lower extremity injury as a low cost, reliable tool when used by trained individuals.
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Phillip Gribble, PhD (Committee Chair)
Kate Jackson, PhD (Committee Member)
Brian Pietrosimone, PhD (Committee Member)
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Wieczorkowski, M. P. (2010).
Functional Movement Screening as a Predictor of Injury in High School Basketball Athletes
[Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1273517778
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Wieczorkowski, Michael.
Functional Movement Screening as a Predictor of Injury in High School Basketball Athletes.
2010. University of Toledo, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1273517778.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Wieczorkowski, Michael. "Functional Movement Screening as a Predictor of Injury in High School Basketball Athletes." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1273517778
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