Back Pain in Competitive Athletes
How to protect performance while assessing diagnosis, workload, sport demands, and return criteria.
Pain in an athlete may be an ordinary training-related episode, but sport, age, trauma, and symptoms change the differential. Pars stress injury, disc and nerve-root problems, hip conditions, fracture, inflammatory disease, or non-musculoskeletal causes may need consideration.
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