Stanford researchers collaborated with Charleston-based South Carolina Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center to analyze 24 NCAA Division 1 basketball players’ seemingly healthy knees. They used a 3.0-T MRI scanner to produce images of the players’ knees before and after one season.
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine published the study on June 22.
Here are four takeaways:
1. Every player showed signs of structural abnormality in at least one knee before and after the season, the study found.
2. The study revealed knees with fat pad edema, patellar tendinopathy and quadriceps tendinopathy.
3. In half of the studied knees in the preseason, researchers found intrameniscal signal change. They found intrameniscal signal change in 62 percent of the postseason knees.
4. Researchers concluded in their study, “high-intensity basketball may have potentially deleterious effects on articular cartilage.”
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