Paper 225: Role of Prevention and Epidemiology of Shoulder Pathologies in Elite Swimmers

Abstract

Overuse pathologies occupy a dominant role in sports traumatology among professional swimmers and the shoulder is the anatomic district more often involved. The purpose of this study was to perform an epidemiological study on shoulder injuries among the Italian elite swimmers, to select two homogeneous groups, to apply a prevention protocol to one group, and to follow-up the two groups at one year evaluating the role and efficacy of prevention exercises.