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Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Athletic injuries, Observer performance, MR, Musculoskeletal system
Authors:
J. S. Berger1, H. Mallmann de Miranda Jr1, F. de Sousa2, C. F. J. Cunha1, L. Targa2; 1Canoas, RS/BR, 2Porto Alegre/BR
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2014/C-1816
Conclusion
Sports-related injuries are getting more prevalent,
because the amount of people that are practicing sports activities,
and the frequency that they do it during the week.
In our evaluation,
we have seen almost all musculoskeletal injuries,
especially muscles lesions.
The cases shown in our pictorial essay are characteristic of muscle strains,
including examples of each degree (I,
II and III) as listed in background section.
The images shown is this study were correlate with current articles and radiology literature,
and are similar to the classic description of muscles strains related to sports practicing,
and really explained the symptons of patients.
Most of these articles concern about lesions affecting professional practicing,
for example soccer players,
in whom muscles strains are common during trainment and,
of course,
during games/practicing. It is interesting that all findings and mechanism of traumatic lesions could be transposed to non-professinonal practicing,
besides these people don't have the same trainning as professional have,
especially soccer players,
(most of male population practicethis sport in Brazil).
Because of all issues we described in this study,
we would like to emphasize how important it is to recognize these findings,
especially by musculoskeletal radiologists and radiology residents,
because they are not difficult to see and are getting really frequent in daily radiologist workflow.