Eugenia Lin, Sailesh V Tummala, Landon Morikawa, Neeraj Vij, Skye Buckner Petty, Kade S McQuivey, Anikar Chhabra
PURPOSE: To characterize the prevalence and incidence of in-game hand and wrist injuries in the National Basketball Association (NBA), to determine the factors associated with an equal or greater player efficiency rating (PER), and to determine the factors associated with an equal or greater true shooting percentage (TS%) 2 years after a hand and wrist injury using a large-scale national database of NBA players. METHODS: Injury data from seasons 2015-2016 to 2020-2021, with exclusion of the 2019-2020 because of abbreviated play due to the coronavirus disease 2019, were extracted from a public online database, Pro Sports Transactions...
December 2023: Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation