Sports Injury Lab member Lauren V. Ready’s article on Achilles Tendon Tears in the NFL was recently featured in the AAOS Now Special Edition.
The retrospective study was presented as part of the Annual Meeting Virtual Experience and assessed Achilles tendon (AT) tears in National Football League (NFL) players, finding that a relatively large percentage of injuries occurred in rookie players during the preseason, whereas AT tears during the regular season occurred only in veteran players.
Lauren stated, “With more than half of rookies not returning to play post-AT rupture, future research should focus on this overlooked population and attempts to safely introduce athletes to a professional level of play.”
Congrats to Lauren and her co-authors on sharing your research!
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