Medicine and science in sports and exercise
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Currently the availability of magnetic resonance imaging has replaced much of the arthrotomography and CT scanning. The increased soft tissue contrast provided by MRI allows its use in assessing tendinous, ligamentous, cartilaginous, and in particular subtle bone marrow changes, which before its inception were never directly imaged. ⋯ The sports medicine clinician's understanding of these changes as well as the new imaging modalities available to them are of paramount importance in treating today's athlete. Modalities available in the 1970s and 1980s were usually limited to plain radiographs to be followed by bone scanning, arthrotomography, or CT scanning.
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Med Sci Sports Exerc · Jul 1999
Head and face injuries in scholastic women's lacrosse with and without eyewear.
The use of protective equipment has been absent or inconsistent in scholastic women's lacrosse leading to increasing concern for eye and head injury. There is a paucity of field data, however, on which to base strategic decisions on how best to prevent head injuries in young athletes. ⋯ On balance, then, the use of eyewear in women's lacrosse appears to be beneficial when users are compared with nonusers.