Abstract
Background: The diagnosis of Osgood-Schlatter Disease (OSD) is based on clinical signs and symptoms. However, more objective parameters, like thermal images, have been researched to determine, along algometry, valid parameters. Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the thermal differences and the painful sensibility between the knees (with SOS and contralateral) of young soccer players. Methods: 6 young men, aged between 12 and 15, members of football schools, composed the sample. Images were taken from an anterior view of both knees, with the volunteer in a seated position, the knees flexed at 90º degrees and both feet flat on the floor. After the thermal image capture, the patients were submitted to an evaluation with the pressure algometer. Results: According to the results, it was found that the knee affected by the OSD showed temperatures significantly higher than the contralateral (p = 0.027) and also greater sensitivity to the pressure algometry (p = 0.027). Conclusion: it can be concluded that the inflammatory process, during OS Syndrome, promotes a local thermal hyper-radiation, identified with the high sensitive thermographic infrared image, producing a significant difference in local temperature between the knees of a single individual. Moreover, this process also increases the pain sensibility, accessed by pressure algometry.
Highlights
Robert Carl Bayley Osgood and Carl Schlatter described the diagnosis of Osgood-Schatter Disease (OSD), a pain1875-399X/17 2017 Bentham Open224 The Open Sports Sciences Journal, 2017, Volume 10 syndrome in the tibial tubercle region, based on clinical symptoms as: Pain, increase in local temperature, edema and tibial tuberosity prominence [1].This syndrome usually occurs in adolescent athletes aged between 12 and 15 years
According to the results, it was found that the knee affected by the OSD showed temperatures significantly higher than the contralateral (p = 0.027) and greater sensitivity to the pressure algometry (p = 0.027)
The sample was composed by six young men, aged between 12-15 years (13.33 ± 1.03), soccer players and with a clinical diagnosis of Osgood-Schlatter disease
Summary
224 The Open Sports Sciences Journal, 2017, Volume 10 syndrome in the tibial tubercle region, based on clinical symptoms as: Pain, increase in local temperature, edema and tibial tuberosity prominence [1]. This syndrome usually occurs in adolescent athletes aged between 12 and 15 years. The SOS incidence is more common in males than females, by a ratio 3:1, possibly because of the larger strength, muscle mass and the higher involvement in a sport practice [2] This disease results from repetitive micro-injuries and the avulsion of osteotendinous junction, where the patellar tendon is inserted in the secondary center of tibial tuberosity ossification. More objective parameters, like thermal images, have been researched to determine, along algometry, valid parameters
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