Clinical and imaging features of the lumbar spine in elite male schoolboy cricketers : the effect of a pre-season lumbar stabilisation intervention

Current evidence indicates that schoolboy cricketers are at a high risk of injury to the lumbar spine. This is particularly relevant in the case of fast bowlers who bowl with a high degree of shoulder counter-rotation. There, however, is a lack of evidence in the literature with respect to injury research of all cricketing disciplines, as fast bowlers receive the most attention. After reviewing the literature it was evident that the effect of a cricket-specific lumbar stabilisation exercise intervention in an attempt to reduce lower back pain and alter other physiological variables, had never been studied. Previous interventions in cricketers have focused only on fast bowlers in an attempt to decrease the degree of shoulder counter-rotation. However, these studies either took two years to observe a decrease or were unsuccessful.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Human Biology

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Aginsky, Kerith Dana

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Derman, Wayne
• Gray, J

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3222

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/3222