Low Back Pain in a Competitive Cricket Athlete

Overview

Journal Int J Sports Phys Ther

Specialty Rehabilitation Medicine

Date 2012 Feb 10

PMID 22319683

Authors

Justin Merlino

Jack Perisa

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Abstract

Physical therapists treating adolescent and young adult athletes with low back pain complaints should have a high level of clinical suspicion of the possibility for spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, or developing stress reactions of the pars interarticularis. This case outlines the use of conventional radiography, computerized tomography, and Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in the differential diagnosis for an adolescent cricket athlete with low back pain.

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