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Keywords:
Trauma, Pathology, Diagnostic procedure, Ultrasound, Elastography, Musculoskeletal system, Musculoskeletal soft tissue
Authors:
V. Saltykova; Moscow/RU
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2014/C-1202
Methods and materials
45 professional sportsmen were enrolled in the study.
They were divided into 2 groups: the first group included 20 sportsmen with no signs of lower extremities muscle disease (control group),
and the second group included 25 sportsmen who experienced pain in the proximal muscles attachment sites of the outer and inner thigh.
Informed consent was obtained after the nature of the procedure had been fully explained.
The ultrasound examination was performed using the Aixplorer (Supersonic Imagine,
France) ultrasound system and linear probe (4–15 MHz).
All patients from groups 1 and 2 have passed examination of the inner and outer thigh muscles using grey scale imaging and shear wave elastography and elastometry to evaluate muscle stiffness at sites of their attachment to the bones.
The data obtained was analyzed using the mean value of Young’s module (Emean) and standard deviation (SD),
E-min,
E-max.